From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:20:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack should not ask for a ref which is already there
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509301418380.15604@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0509291403050.5362@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Wouldn't it make much more sense to add a flag which repairs an 
> > incomplete fetch?
> 
> No.
> 
> We've seen crap. We've _seen_ people use the old git-ssh-pull etc that 
> would result in incomplete repositories, and having people use the 
> "--recover" flag.
> 
> THAT KIND OF CRAP IS UNACCEPTABLE! I had to walk Andrew through a broken 
> repository because he had used those unreliable fetch methods. I was 
> ashamed of git at that point.
> 
> If a ^C results in a repository that needs to be fixed up, the "source 
> control management" is BROKEN. It's not source control, it's a buggy 
> mess.

Okay, fair enough, I had that coming. But how about the opposite? A flag, 
that says "I want to take the fast path, and if I fsck up, it is my fault 
alone", just like "-f" to git-checkout?

Ciao,
Dscho