From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:47:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-pack: Filter unknown commits from alternates of the remote
Message-ID: <7vbptsyzfe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090128013840.GA7224@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> writes:

> Since 40c155ff14c, receive-pack on the remote also sends refs from its
> alternates. Unfortunately, we don't filter commits that don't exist in the
> local repository from that list.  This made us pass those unknown commits
> to pack-objects, causing it to fail with a "bad object" error.

Yeah, it is a step in the right direction, but is the *wrong* fix I
described in my previous message.

Our mails crossed ;-)

And I think we should have this in the place where we receive .have,
i.e. inside add_extra_have() in connect.c