Re: git-local-pull?

From: barkalow@iabervon.org <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2005, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508041632220.23721@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050804201230.GC24479@pasky.ji.cz>

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 07:11:00PM CEST, I got a letter
> where barkalow@iabervon.org told me that...
> > IIRC, git-local-pull still doesn't work for a packed source repository, 
> > because it doesn't include the possibility of copying a pack (or 
> > extracting an object) if the requested object is in a pack.
> > 
> > I can probably fix it if anyone cares, but it's not something I use 
> > personally, so I don't know if it's worthwhile. It should probably be 
> > removed if we don't fix it, since it will fail on any popular repository 
> > at this point.
> 
> I want to use it in Cogito again, since copying everything obviously
> sucks and I want to hardlink, so repacking is not a solution either.
> Didn't you post some patches to fix this long time ago, actually?

Not for local-pull; I only did the other two. local-pull is special, because it's actually dealing with files on disk, and it also has to look at a repository that isn't what you're using.

	-Daniel
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