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BEWARE: mkdelta is broken

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
May 27, 2005, 01:32 UTC
Message-ID
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Please don't use mkdelta on a valuable repository for the time being.

The current delta loop detection logic is broken. So if you have multiple merged branches or you have a changeset that revert things then you might end up with a delta loop and fsck-cache will effectively complain about unresolved deltas and assorted dangling/broken object links.

I'm working on a fix right now.
Nicolas
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