Re: What broke snapshots now?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 10, 2005, 17:31 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507101026430.17536@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <1121016147.23706.91.camel@baythorne.infradead.org>

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:

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> > Anyway, it's possible that this is a temporary problem: one of the issues 
> > is that since you seem to be using the "rsync:" protocol for updating 
> > things, what happens is that if the mirroring is off a bit, you may have 
> > gotten a new head, but not all the objects. Then you'd get exactly this.
> 
> It's done locally on hera though -- so the mirroring shouldn't be a
> problem.

No it's not, as far as I can tell:

	torvalds@hera:/home/dwmw2/git/mail-2.6(0)$ cat .git/branches/origin
	rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

so your scripts will go out to rsync with www.kernel.org to get the data, when you use "cg-update origin".

> More usefully though, if ordering really isn't a problem on your
> repository then I should probably rewrite the script to work directly
> from that instead of from a copy.

It should not be a problem, but you obviously have to be careful about ordering, ie you should fetch the references first, and act on them later.

		Linus