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Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags

From
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2012, 01:30 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> I don't think that will work, as stateless-rpc fetch-pack already uses
> stdin to receive the list of advertised refs from the remote. Nor would
> you want to have multiple invocations of fetch-pack, since that would
> mean multiple http requests and multiple pack responses (which could not
> delta between themselves).

remote-curl functions as middle man between http client and fetch-pack. Can we just send ref list over fetch-pack.stdin first, followed by maybe empty line, then normal stuff that remote-curl feeds fetch-pack?

-- 
Duy
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  1. Ivan TodoroskiMar 18, 2012
  2. Ivan TodoroskiMar 18, 2012
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 18, 2012
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 18, 2012
  5. Jeff KingMar 18, 2012
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 18, 2012
  7. Jeff KingMar 19, 2012
  8. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 19, 2012
  9. Jeff KingMar 19, 2012
  10. Ivan TodoroskiMar 19, 2012
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 19, 2012
  12. Jeff KingMar 19, 2012
  13. Ivan TodoroskiMar 21, 2012
  14. Shawn PearceMar 21, 2012
  15. Jeff KingMar 21, 2012
  16. Jakub NarebskiMar 21, 2012
  17. Ivan TodoroskiMar 21, 2012
  18. Jeff KingMar 21, 2012
  19. Ivan TodoroskiMar 24, 2012
  20. Jeff KingMar 25, 2012
  21. Jeff KingMar 25, 2012
  22. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  23. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  24. Jeff KingMar 26, 2012
  25. Ivan TodoroskiMar 27, 2012
  26. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  27. 1/2 fetch-pack: new option to read refs from stdinIvan Todoroski, Mar 24, 2012
  28. Jeff KingMar 25, 2012
  29. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  30. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  31. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  32. Jeff KingMar 26, 2012
  33. Ivan TodoroskiMar 26, 2012
  34. Jeff KingMar 26, 2012
  35. 2/2 remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdinIvan Todoroski, Mar 24, 2012
  36. Jeff KingMar 25, 2012
  37. Ivan TodoroskiMar 25, 2012
  38. Jeff KingMar 26, 2012
  39. 0/4 Fix fetch-pack command line overflow during cloneIvan Todoroski, Mar 27, 2012
  40. 1/4 fetch-pack: new --stdin option to read refs from stdinIvan Todoroski, Mar 27, 2012
  41. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2012
  42. Ivan TodoroskiMar 27, 2012
  43. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2012
  44. Ivan TodoroskiMar 27, 2012
  45. 2/4 remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdinIvan Todoroski, Mar 27, 2012
  46. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2012
  47. Ivan TodoroskiMar 27, 2012
  48. 3/4 fetch-pack: test cases for the new --stdin optionIvan Todoroski, Mar 27, 2012
  49. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2012
  50. Ivan TodoroskiMar 27, 2012
  51. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2012
  52. Ivan TodoroskiMar 28, 2012
  53. 4/4 remote-curl: main test case for the OS command line overflowIvan Todoroski, Mar 27, 2012
  54. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2012

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