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Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 24, 2009, 00:28 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0901240127110.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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<20090123223740.GA11527@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Hi,
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote:
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> But I thought the issue at hand was that for some instances, we would 
> report that we successfully created an empty repository, when in fact 
> what happened was that we failed to clone a non-empty repository. And 
> that that was fixable, but it was a problem with our code interfaces 
> (which should be fixable) and not some fundamental limitation.

It appears that the HTTP code (at least after the first round of Mike's patches) has issues there, yes, but I think it would not be fair to stop Sverre's patch because of that: the HTTP code needs fixing anyway, and this fix is orthogonal to the empty clones.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 13 of 23 in “Allow cloning an empty repository”
  1. Allow cloning an empty repositorySverre Rabbelier, Jan 23, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 23, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierJan 23, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 23, 2009
  5. Sverre RabbelierJan 23, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinJan 23, 2009
  7. Miklos VajnaJan 23, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 23, 2009
  9. Jeff KingJan 23, 2009
  10. Sverre RabbelierJan 23, 2009
  11. Jeff KingJan 23, 2009
  12. Sverre RabbelierJan 23, 2009
  13. Johannes SchindelinJan 24, 2009
  14. Mike HommeyJan 23, 2009
  15. http fixes, was Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repositoryJohannes Schindelin, Jan 24, 2009
  16. Sverre RabbelierJan 24, 2009
  17. Miklos VajnaJan 23, 2009
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 24, 2009
  19. Sverre RabbelierJan 24, 2009
  20. Miklos VajnaJan 25, 2009
  21. Sverre RabbelierJan 25, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2009
  23. Sverre RabbelierJan 25, 2009

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