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Re: git push sends more objects than it needs to

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 31, 2005, 18:49 UTC
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"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:
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> Now the "unpack" on kernel.org did the right thing and noticed
> that over 9000 of the objects were already in the packfile.  But
> I wonder if it couldn't have been smarter and not sent them?
>
> Or am I just subverting the whole paradigm by hand-copying
> packfiles around?

The fix for this problem is in 0.99.9 (credits to Johannes). Unfortunately, 0.99.8f is still in /usr/bin/ on kernel.org.

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  4. Luck, TonyOct 31, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005

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