Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-bundle: die if a given ref is not included in bundle

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 10, 2007, 16:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703101749270.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45F2D955.8050800@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > IMHO saying "master ^master" should blow into the user's face. If she 
> > says "I want it" _and_ "I don't want it", she should sorta expect it 
> > not to work.
>
> [...]
>
> As long as the lists are syntactically acceptable (all exist), we should 
> just create the bundle with the given refs and prerequisites.

So, what do you do if some of your users do, and some others do not, have the "blue-sky" branch? If you say "git bundle create new.bundle --all -10", your bundle will list "blue-sky" as a prerequisite.

Boom.

Some of your users -- those without "blue-sky" -- will _not_ be able to fetch _anything_ from the bundle. They are lacking the prerequisites.

The semantics of git-bundle used to be so clear and sensible, since they exactly reflected what git-pack-objects would do.

Now they are no longer?

Ciao, Dscho