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On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:41:35PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> > BTW, I do not think this is related to git.git repository
> > problem, but I wonder why we do not do fetch_object() against
> > each altbase in http-fetch.c::fetch(); nobody said you cannot
> > borrow unpacked object from your neighbour.
> 
> I believe the code is doing that, but elsewhere.

Er, never mind what I said in my previous message.  Daniel is correct,
process_curl_messages() will try the next altbase if a request 404s.

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