From: Matthias Urlichs Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:35:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Recovery after interrupted HTTP(s) fetch Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vk6hjfh9u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniel Barkalow writes: >> Oh, right. Yeah, that's the obvious solution. I'll do that tonight. > > Thanks. In the meantime I have Sergey's patch in the "pu" > branch but we can replace it with your fix. Personally I'd rather combine the two. The point being, broken repositories do happen -- for instance, when the file system is inconsistent after a crash, or when the referent of an info/alternates directory vanishes. :-/ I'd rather have a simple repair flag than do a "download everything again and then throw most of it away" job when something like that happens. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - Experience keeps a dear school, but it's a hell of a campaign tactic. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac