From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:24:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Recovery after interrupted HTTP(s) fetch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509141722500.23242@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509141411510.26803@g5.osdl.org>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 
> > It's not about the refs at all. The issue is that, when it reaches a 
> > commit that we already have, it assumes that we have everything that 
> > commit references and stops there. It really ought to not do that, but I 
> > think it might be too slow if it goes through everything all the time.
> 
> No, you don't need to go through everything all the time.
> 
> Do what the pack-sending stuff does: it assumes that it has everything
> that is reachable from the _old_ refs. It doesn't walk all the way to the 
> root, it "just" walks far enough that it can ignore anything that was 
> reachable from the old refs.

Oh, right. Yeah, that's the obvious solution. I'll do that tonight.

	-Daniel
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