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Re: [PATCH] Add a test for another combination of --reference

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
May 22, 2008, 22:34 UTC
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<200805230034.33567.johan@herland.net>
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On Friday 23 May 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
> 
> In this case, the reference repository has some useful loose objects,
> but not all useful objects, and we make sure that we can find the
> objects we fetch from the repository we're cloning in the new
> repository, instead of potentially being distracted by the reference
> repository.
> 
> Doing the wrong thing in a builtin-clone implementation would lead to
> this looking for an object in the wrong place, not finding it (because
> it's only in the right place), and crashing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Thanks again.
...Johan
PS: I'm holding off on submitting my builtin-clone-packs-refs series until
1.5.6 is out. I think builtin-clone has seen enough action in this cycle. :)
-- 
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net
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