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Re: [PATCH] Add a test for another combination of --reference

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
May 23, 2008, 02:03 UTC
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<alpine.LNX.1.00.0805222202060.19665@iabervon.org>
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On Fri, 23 May 2008, Johan Herland wrote:
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> On Friday 23 May 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
> > 
> > In this case, the reference repository has some useful loose objects,
> > but not all useful objects, and we make sure that we can find the
> > objects we fetch from the repository we're cloning in the new
> > repository, instead of potentially being distracted by the reference
> > repository.
> > 
> > Doing the wrong thing in a builtin-clone implementation would lead to
> > this looking for an object in the wrong place, not finding it (because
> > it's only in the right place), and crashing.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> ...Johan
> 
> PS: I'm holding off on submitting my builtin-clone-packs-refs series until
> 1.5.6 is out. I think builtin-clone has seen enough action in this cycle. :)
Yeah, I agree.
	-Daniel
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