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Re: RFC: Allow missing objects during packing

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2008, 22:39 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> ... It seems pretty harmless to allow an object we
> aren't going to transmit but that we want to use as a delta base
> in a thin pack to be missing.  At worst we just get a little bit
> more data transfer.

If the check is only about a thin delta base that is not going to be transmit, I'd agree. But I do not see how you are distinguishing that case and the case where an object you are actually sending is missing (in which case we would want to error out, wouldn't we?)

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  1. Shawn O. PearceAug 11, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 11, 2008
  4. Shawn O. PearceAug 12, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  6. Nicolas PitreAug 12, 2008
  7. pack-objects: Allow missing base objects when creating thin packsShawn O. Pearce, Aug 12, 2008
  8. Nicolas PitreAug 12, 2008
  9. Shawn O. PearceAug 12, 2008
  10. Nicolas PitreAug 12, 2008
  11. pack-objects: Allow missing base objects when creating thin packsShawn O. Pearce, Aug 12, 2008
  12. Nicolas PitreAug 12, 2008

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