Re: send-pack: limit on negative references

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 5, 2006, 16:23 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwt8igu4u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <44FD714F.9040003@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

> I've been having trouble with git push apparently resending the entire
> commit trace for the branch each and every time I push; even with short
> branch names.  This seems to be related to the changes made to handle
> the case where the remote end has a large number of branches (>900).

I think the right fix is to do one or both of the following, and lift that 900 cut-off entirely.

One is to teach rev-list to read the information it is taking from the command line instead from its standard input.

Another is to teach pack-object the same trick on top of my patch last night. This has an added benefit that we save one pipe+fork+exec there.

These are essentially suggestions from Linus made twice separately in the past, so they must be on the right track ;-).

If nobody does, I would do it myself, but the list is welcome to beat me to it. Especially, the former (giving --stdin option to rev-list) should be trivial.