From: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>,
Takuto Ikuta <tikuta@chromium.org>,
Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch-pack: demonstrate --all failure when remote is empty
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:21:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180613182122.GA22854@deco.navytux.spb.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh8m67gpo.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:13:07AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> writes:
>
> > ( Junio, please pick up the patch provided in the end )
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 06:54:17PM +0000, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 05:48:49AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 09:43:02AM +0000, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> > > I'm not sure, but I would say that `fetch-pack --all` from an empty
> >> > > repository should not fail and should just give empty output as fetch
> >> > > does.
> >> >
> >> > Yeah, that seems reasonable to me. The die() that catches this dates
> >> > back to 2005-era, and we later taught the "fetch" porcelain to handle
> >> > this. I don't _think_ anybody would be upset that the plumbing learned
> >> > to treat this as a noop. It's probably a one-liner change in
> >> > fetch_pack() to return early instead of dying.
>
> I actually have a slight preference to the current "attempting to
> fetch from a total emptiness is so rare that it is worth grabbing
> attention of whoever does so" behaviour, to be honest.
I see.
> Oh, wait, is this specific to "fetch-pack" and the behaviour of
> end-user-facing "git fetch" is kept same as before? If then, I'd be
> somewhat sympathetic to the cause---it would be more convenient for
> the calling Porcelain script if this turned into a silent noop (even
> though it would probably make it harder to diagnose when such a
> Porcelain is set up incorrectly e.g. pointing at an empty repository
> that is not the one the Porcelain writer intended to fetch from).
Yes, it is only for fetch-pack, and behaviour of porcelain fetch is kept
as it was before.
> > However with transport.c being there too, since I'm no longer using
> > `fetch-pack --all`, now it is best for me to not delve into this story
> > and just stop with attached patch.
>
> If we do not plan to change the behaviour later ourselves, I do not
> think it makes sense, nor it is fair to those future developers who
> inherit this project, to declare that the established behaviour is
> wrong with an 'expect-failure' test like this, to be honest.
I see. Let's please cancel this patch then.
> > +test_expect_failure 'test --all wrt empty.git' '
> > + git init --bare empty.git &&
> > + (
> > + cd client &&
> > + git fetch-pack --all ../empty.git
> > + )
> > +'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-13 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-10 14:32 [PATCH] fetch-pack: demonstrate --all breakage when remote have tags to non-commit objects Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-11 4:20 ` Jeff King
2018-06-11 4:47 ` [PATCH] fetch-pack: don't try to fetch peeled values with --all Jeff King
2018-06-11 5:28 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-11 5:53 ` [PATCH v2] fetch-pack: don't try to fetch peel " Jeff King
2018-06-11 9:43 ` Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-12 9:48 ` Jeff King
2018-06-12 18:54 ` Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-13 11:18 ` [PATCH] fetch-pack: test explicitly that --all can fetch tag references pointing to non-commits Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-13 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-13 18:43 ` Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-13 21:05 ` Jeff King
2018-06-13 23:11 ` Jeff King
2018-06-14 5:25 ` Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-14 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-14 17:51 ` Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-13 12:55 ` [PATCH] fetch-pack: demonstrate --all failure when remote is empty Kirill Smelkov
2018-06-13 17:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-13 18:21 ` Kirill Smelkov [this message]
2018-06-13 21:13 ` [PATCH v2] fetch-pack: don't try to fetch peel values with --all Jeff King
2018-06-14 5:29 ` Kirill Smelkov
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