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Re: [PATCH] allow OFS_DELTA objects during a push

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 4, 2009, 22:30 UTC
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<20090504223005.GG23604@spearce.org>
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > The fetching of OFS_DELTA objects has been negotiated between both peers 
> > since git version 1.4.4.  However, this was missing from the push side 
> > where every OFS_DELTA objects were always converted to REF_DELTA objects 
> > causing an increase in transferred data.
> 
> Folks, this may have broken git push for me.
> 
> I'm trying to debug it right now, but something in next between
> 46488d2 and 03e1664 has caused "git push" to not create a pack
> file, sending the remote peer 0 objects, when really we should have
> transmitted objects, e.g. in the case I just looked at, we should
> have sent 11.
Uhm, never mind.

Somehow my incremental build failed horribly; it compiled and created a git-push which worked "some of the time". Building again produced a working git-push.

Scary stuff.  Now I have to worry about the toolchain on this system.
But I don't think there is a problem in git.git.
 
-- 
Shawn.
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Message 16 of 16 in “Weird growth in packfile during initial push”
  1. Robin H. JohnsonApr 15, 2009
  2. Nicolas PitreApr 15, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2009
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 30, 2009
  5. Robin H. JohnsonMay 1, 2009
  6. allow OFS_DELTA objects during a pushNicolas Pitre, May 1, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2009
  8. Compatibility between git.git and jgitShawn O. Pearce, May 2, 2009
  9. A Large Angry SCMMay 2, 2009
  10. Nicolas PitreMay 2, 2009
  11. Shawn O. PearceMay 2, 2009
  12. Ealdwulf WuffingaMay 2, 2009
  13. Michael WittenMay 2, 2009
  14. Nicolas PitreMay 2, 2009
  15. Shawn O. PearceMay 4, 2009
  16. Shawn O. PearceMay 4, 2009

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