Re: [PATCH] improved delta support for git

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Jon Seymour wrote:

> On 5/13/05, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 May 2005 00:36, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > It appears to me that changes to the make_sure_we_have_it() ...
> >
> > 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,
> 
> Doesn't that assume that the object referenced by the delta is
> reachable from the commit being pulled. While that may be true in
> practice, I don't think it is a logical certainty.

1) If you happen to already have the referenced object in your local 
   repository then you're done.

2) If not you pull the referenced object from the remote repository, 
   repeat with #1 if it happens to be another delta object.

3) If the remote repository doesn't contain the object referenced by any 
   pulled delta object then that repository is inconsistent just like if 
   a blob object referenced by a tree object was missing.  This 
   therefore should not happen.  git-fsck-cache will flag broken delta 
   links soon.


Nicolas