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Re: Be more careful about updating refs

From
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date
Jan 17, 2008, 11:01 UTC
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<20080117110132.GB12285@hashpling.org>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:52:23AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> 
> I observed the same (on Windows). The reason is that above-mentioned
> commit introduces a call to parse_objects(). But by the time that
> fast-import calls write_ref_sha1() (and, hence, this new parse_objects())
> it has not yet written a pack file, and parse_objects() fails. I don't
> have a clue how to fix this short of reverting the commit.
>

OK, so it's not just Mac OS X, then. From your description and my initial poke at the code, I can't immediately see a good reason why the test should succeed on Linux, though.

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  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 17, 2008
  9. Charles BaileyJan 17, 2008
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