Re: Wishlist for a bundle-only transport mode

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2007, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <200711232009.41739.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160711230734l30a3e907rac5aee11f3518e88@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Santi Béjar wrote:

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> On Nov 23, 2007 4:06 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> "Santi Béjar" <sbejar@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> OK. So git push will never understand bundles.
>>
>> Why not?
> 
> Sorry, I misunderstood you, because pushing to an existing
> bundle loses information, and that is also inconsistent with pushing
> to regular repositories.

Pushing to regular repositories _adds_ information (adds objects and advances refs). Junio proposed that "git push <bundle>" do the same, which means getting refs from bundle, and adding objects to bundle creating new bundle, which contain all the old one has, and all what was created since then. What information would be lost?

Johannes provided alternate solution which you can use even now, namely how to create "incremental" bundle, which has all objects since last bundle was created. But this does not play with the way push works with ordinary, regular repositories.

P.S. Code speaks louder than words ;-)

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Jakub Narebski
Poland