From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 18:40:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use ref transactions for fetch
Message-ID: <xmqq61lig38j.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <53677483.4050409@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> It would be pretty annoying to spend a lot of time fetching a big pack,
> only to have the fetch fail because one reference out of many couldn't
> be updated.  This would force the user to download the entire pack
> again,...

Is that really true?  Doesn't quickfetch optimization kick in for
the second fetch?