Re: [PATCH 1/7] t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch

From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Feb 13, 2012, 04:45 UTC
Message-ID: <4F389567.8060108@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vsjifids5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 02/13/2012 04:35 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> mhagger@alum.mit.edu writes:
> 
>> +test_expect_success 'prepare branched repository' '
>> +	git clone A J &&
>> +	(
>> +		cd J &&
>> +		git checkout -b other master^ &&
>> +		echo other > otherfile &&
> 
> s/ > / >/; but that is nothing I cannot fix locally.
> 
>> +test_expect_failure 'fetch with incomplete alternates' '
> 
> I am assuming that this "incomplete" means "this alternate helps reducing
> the number of objects we need to fetch from the remote, but it does not
> have everything objects we need, and we still need to fetch some from the
> remote".  Am I correct?

Correct. Feel free to improve the description if you can think of a better way to describe it.

Michael

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