Re: Cannot push anything via export transport helper after push fails.

> В Sat, 11 May 2013 08:57:14 -0500
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> пишет:
>
>> >
>> > The problem seems to be that git fast-export updates marks
>> > unconditionally, whether export actually applied or not. So next time
>> > it assumes everything is already exported and does nothing.
>> >
>> > Is it expected behavior?
>>
>> Indeed, this is the way it currently works, and it's not easy to fix.
>> We would need some way to make fast-export wait until we know the exit
>> status of the remote helper, and then tell it when it failed, so the
>> marks are not updated.
>>
>
> One possibility would be to omit *export-marks and manage GIT marks in
> remote helper as well. Helper would then update synchronously both GIT
> and BZR marks if no errors were detected. Or even better, it could
> update just those commits that had been successful.

>> However, the way remote-bzr/hg work is that the commits are still
>> there anyway. So if you merge the next time you push those commits are
>> already converted, so it's not a problem if fast-export is not
>> exporting them again.
>>
>
> As I understand bzr commit ID is stable. What happens if we try to
> commit the same ID second time?

>> So even though it's not ideal, it should work.
>>
>
> I'm more concerned about transport errors. Any network glitch during
> push renders you repository unusable (at least, without much efforts).