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Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jun 28, 2005, 02:13 UTC
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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> LT> ... Also, please note that the pack-file _only_ packs the commits
> LT> and the things reachable from them ...
> 
> Shouldn't feeding "git-rev-list --object" output plus
> handcrafted list of objects in 2.6.11 tree object to
> git-pack-objects just work???

You could do that. And yes, we can add support for "tag" objects too (which the packing doesn't do at all right now. So this is not a "fundamental" problem, it's just a practical one right now.

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> > [..  git-ssh-pull hopefully working ..]
>
> No.  The pull protocol Dan did expects to throw compressed
> representation around on the wire (which is valid if you assume
> uncompressed transfer) and does not use read-sha1-file --
> write-sha1-file pair, so all three do not work.

Fair enough. I'd prefer for the pull/push to push object packs around anyway, so there's some more work there..

		Linus
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Message 18 of 38 in “CAREFUL! No more delta object support!”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  2. Christopher LiJun 27, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  5. Christopher LiJun 28, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  7. Benjamin LaHaiseJun 28, 2005
  8. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  9. Jan HarkesJun 28, 2005
  10. Christopher LiJun 28, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  12. Emit base objects of a delta chain when the delta is output.Junio C Hamano, Jun 29, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  14. Skip writing out sha1 files for objects in packed git.Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  20. Adjust to git-init-db creating $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/packJunio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  22. Daniel BarkalowJun 28, 2005
  23. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  24. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  25. Daniel BarkalowJun 28, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  27. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  28. Matthias UrlichsJun 28, 2005
  29. Matthias UrlichsJun 28, 2005
  30. Daniel BarkalowJun 28, 2005
  31. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2005
  32. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2005
  33. Daniel BarkalowJun 29, 2005
  34. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2005
  35. Daniel BarkalowJun 29, 2005
  36. Adjust fsck-cache to packed GIT and alternate object pool.Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  37. Expose packed_git and alt_odb.Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  38. 3/3 Update fsck-cache (take 2)Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005

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