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Re: [RFC] Order of push/pull file transfers

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Jun 24, 2005, 16:38 UTC
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Russell King wrote:
> Last night, I pulled Linus' kernel tree from k.o, but Linus was in the
> middle of pushing an update to it.  The way cogito works, it grabs the
> HEAD first, and then rsyncs the objects.

It needs to do this, in case HEAD changes after or during the rsync (to include objects written after the rsync looked for them).

> However, this retrieved the updated HEAD, and only some of the objects.
> cogito happily tried to merge the result, and failed.  A later pull
> and git-fsck-cache confirmed everything was fine _in this instance_.

It should be fine in all instances; it makes no assuptions about the presence or absence of objects in the local database before the pull, so doing a pull after the previous one didn't work right should be just as likely to result in a functional state as any other pull.

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> Therefore, may I suggest the following two changes in the way git
> works:
> 
> 1. a push updates HEAD only after the rsync/upload of all objects is
>    complete.  This means that any pull will not try to update to the
>    new head with a partial object tree.

git-ssh-push only updates the HEAD (or, rather, the thing the HEAD is a symlink to) afterwards. I'm not sure how Linus was getting things there. It's also possible that the mirroring process is failing to maintain this constraint.

> 2. a pull only tries to fetch objects if HEAD has been updated since
>    the last pull.

That's no good; if the only recent change is a new tag, you want to get the tag object. Also, having it not do this is what let it recover in your case on the second try. The only risk is that you'll pick up some objects that you don't need yet (but would need if you pulled again when the push completes).

	-Daniel
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