From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:02:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Recovery after interrupted HTTP(s) fetch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509151458240.23242@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.09.15.10.34.59.363606@smurf.noris.de>

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> >> Oh, right. Yeah, that's the obvious solution. I'll do that tonight.
> > 
> > Thanks.  In the meantime I have Sergey's patch in the "pu"
> > branch but we can replace it with your fix.
> 
> Personally I'd rather combine the two. The point being, broken
> repositories do happen -- for instance, when the file system is
> inconsistent after a crash, or when the referent of an info/alternates
> directory vanishes. :-/
> 
> I'd rather have a simple repair flag than do a "download everything again
> and then throw most of it away" job when something like that happens.

Agreed; but we want a new patch for --recover, because with the new code, 
the easy way is to skip the for_each_ref call, at which point it will just 
not assume you have anything.

	-Daniel
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