Re: fetching packs and storing them as packs
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 27, 2006, 03:20 UTC
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Sean wrote:
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> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:00:54 -0400 > Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote: > >> What happens when the incoming pack (steps #2 and #3) takes 15 >> minutes to upload (slow ADSL modem, lots of objects) and the >> background repack process sees those temporary refs and starts >> trying to include those objects? It can't walk the DAG that those >> refs point at because the objects aren't in the current repository. > > As long as there was standard naming for such temporary refs, > they could be completely ignored by the repack process, no?
You meant I think: half ignored. Taken into account when finding which parts are referenced to delete (-d part), but not complain if they don't point to anything (validation).
-- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git