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Re: [PATCH] Teach receive-pack how to keep pack files when unpacklooseobjects = 0.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Oct 31, 2006, 04:54 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
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> Why not just parse the pack header in receive-pack / fetch-pack, and 
> decide on the first-hand information?  Sure the pack header is then 
> gone, but then the only thing that is needed is an extra flag to both 
> unpack-objects and index-pack to tell them that we've already parsed the 
> pack header and that the pack version is x and the number of objects is 
> y.  Simply something like --pack_header=x,y.  No protocol extension 
> needed, no extra rev-list, no reliance on the remote server providing 
> the needed info.
I like it.

Because that approach assumes recieve-pack and unpack-objects and index-pack are from the same vintage (otherwise your receive-pack would need to have a way to see if unpack-objects and index-pack would grok --pack_header argument), we could even get away without passing the pack version if we wanted to.

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  1. Teach receive-pack how to keep pack files when unpacklooseobjects = 0.Shawn Pearce, Oct 30, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2006
  3. Shawn PearceOct 31, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2006
  5. Nicolas PitreOct 31, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceOct 31, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceOct 31, 2006

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