Re: [3/5] Add http-pull

> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:59:00 +0200
> From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
> To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [3/5] Add http-pull
>
> Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:24:27PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> >
> > > Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:49:11PM CEST, I got a letter
> > > where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
> > > > There's some trickiness for the history of commits thing for stopping at
> > > > the point where you have everything, but also behaving appropriately if
> > > > you try once, fail partway through, and then try again. It's on my queue
> > > > of things to think about.
> > >
> > > Can't you just stop the recursion when you hit a commit you already
> > > have?
> >
> > The problem is that, if you've fetched the final commit already, and then
> > the server dies, and you try again later, you already have the last one,
> > and so you think you've got everything.
>
> Hmm, some kind of journaling? ;-)