Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-bundle: die if a given ref is not included in bundle

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2007, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <45F2F934.8060407@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703101749270.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>   
> So, what do you do if some of your users do, and some others do not, have 
> the "blue-sky" branch? If you say "git bundle create new.bundle --all 
> -10", your bundle will list "blue-sky" as a prerequisite.
>
> Boom.
>
> Some of your users -- those without "blue-sky" -- will _not_ be able 
> to fetch _anything_ from the bundle. They are lacking the prerequisites.
>

Those who have the prerequisites can apply the bundle. Those who do not, cannot. This is unchanged, and completely unrelated to whether the bundle defines 0 objects or 10,000. If you do not have the prerequisites, you need a different bundle.

Mark