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

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 21, 2012, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJu0H5wfXB_y5XQ6=S0VJ9t4pxHWkuy_=rehJL_6psf00g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:05, Ivan Todoroski <grnch_lists@gmx.net> wrote:

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> On 19.03.2012 03:44, Jeff King wrote:
>> Yes, I think that would work. You'd just have to take care to pass the
>> residual buffer (i.e., what is left in your input buffer after you
>> notice that reading the list of wanted refs is finished) along to
>> the git-protocol code.  So it would require a little refactoring of
>> get_remote_heads, I think.
>
>
> Would it be OK for fetch-pack.c to use the packetized format (pkt-line.h)
> for reading the list of refs from stdin?

This is probably the easiest way to implement the sneak-into-stdin patch. Use a pkt-line for each argument that should have been in the argv array from the command line, and a flush pkt to terminate the list.