From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] fetch-pack: log(n)-transmission find_common()
Message-ID: <200810282037.36275.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810281034500.13034@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I had to back this patch out from my version as things seemed to 
> fall into an infinite loop of ref negotiation while fetching the Linux 
> kernel repository at some point.  Doing a "git fetch -v -v" turned up an 
> endless stream of "got" and "have" lines.  I was in a hurry for $work so 
> didn't think of preserving my local refs for reproduction of the 
> problem.

Ah.  Thanks for the report, though having a test case would be great.
I've been running it without problems since I completed v2 more than a
month ago, so I don't expect it to be an obvious mistake.

- Thomas

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Thomas Rast
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