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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improved delta support for git
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:27:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505121027.01964.mason@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7voebhkql5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thursday 12 May 2005 00:36, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> It appears to me that changes to the make_sure_we_have_it()
> routine along the following lines (completely untested) would
> suffice.  Instead of just returning success, we first fetch the
> named object from the remote side, read it to see if it is
> really the object we have asked, or just a delta, and if it is a
> delta call itself again on the underlying object that delta
> object depends upon.

If we fetch the named object and it is a delta, the delta will either depend 
on an object we already have or an object that we don't have.  If we don't 
have it, the pull should find it while pulling other commits we don't have.

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-12 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-12  3:51 [PATCH] improved delta support for git Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-12  4:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-12 14:27   ` Chris Mason [this message]
     [not found]     ` <2cfc403205051207467755cdf@mail.gmail.com>
2005-05-12 14:47       ` Jon Seymour
2005-05-12 15:18         ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-12 17:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-13 11:44             ` Chris Mason
2005-05-17 18:22 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-17 19:02   ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-17 19:10   ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-17 21:43 ` Dan Holmsand
2005-05-18  4:32   ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-18  8:54     ` Dan Holmsand
2005-05-18 18:41       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-18 19:32         ` Dan Holmsand
2005-05-18 15:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-18 17:15     ` Dan Holmsand

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