Re: [PATCH 2/2] Allow fetch-pack to decide keeping the fetched pack without exploding

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 10:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231129501.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm8ansrt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> With --keep-auto option, fetch-pack decides to keep the pack without 
> exploding it just like receive-pack does.

I like both patches. (Did not have time to test yet, but from looking at the patches, it seems indeed to be mostly code moves.)

> We may want to later make this the default.

You have my vote for sooner rather than later.

Ciao, Dscho

P.S.: These patches make me dream of yet another diff format enhancement: code moves! Of course, for this to be really usable, you'd also have to automatically determine indent changes... You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one...

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