Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2008, 19:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtzesff91.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

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> Getting alternates list for http://repo.or.cz/r/repo.git/
> Getting pack list for http://repo.or.cz/r/repo.git/
> Getting index for pack 5111285cac0f895cd9367c9939ced68e2c43dcc0
> error: non-monotonic index
> /usr/bin/git-fetch: line 297: 30402 Segmentation fault git-http-fetch -v -a "$head" "$remote/"

Yeah, I think git-repack, git-gc, git-pack-objects and git-index-pack on the server side need a knob to tell it to stay conservative because the repository may be served over dumb protocols to avoid this problem.

That knob could even be called

	[repack]
        	usedeltabaseoffset = false
	[pack]
        	indexversion = 1

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