From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:55:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43386E56.8000208@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050926212536.GF26340@pasky.or.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 03:18:33AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> told me that...
>
>>Dear diary, on Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:24:06AM CEST, I got a letter
>>where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...
>>
>>>Packed tag objects breaks Cogito when using git+ssh:// transport.
>>>
>>>Example:
>>>
>>>cg-clone -s git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git
>>
>>I changed the code to use the git-*-fetch tools to fetch the objects
>>referenced by tags, so this works properly now. Thanks for the report.
>
>
> And now thanks to "walt" I realized that this is a completely wrong way
> to go. The problem is that the tags don't have to tag anything on your
> branch, and if you are fetching a given branch, you want only commits
> from that branch. But fetching the tags will cause all the commits
> connected to the tags getting slurped too, and we didn't want that.
>
> So the strategy I'm thinking of now is to manually (I think no GIT tool
> can do that for me) dereference the possible tag chain until I end up at
> some non-tag object. Now, if it is a commit and I don't have it yet, it
> means that it is not interesting to me because it does not belong to a
> branch I'm following, so I will just ignore the tag (won't download
> anything else and won't record it in the refs/tags directory).
I think this is the right idea.
> If it's NOT a commit, well, that's a question. On the assumption that
> it won't be a great deal of data and it's likely to be assumed that we
> have it, I would be inclined to fetching it, but I don't feel strongly
> about it.
It could point to a tree (ie. the kernel's v2.6.11 tag), which may end
up being a large pull. I think it's best to not care what type of
object the tag references.
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-26 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-23 22:24 Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-24 1:18 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-24 1:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-24 2:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-24 12:50 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-24 17:13 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-09-24 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 22:33 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-09 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-09 23:36 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-11-09 23:44 ` Petr Baudis
2005-11-10 1:01 ` Nick Hengeveld
2005-11-09 23:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 21:25 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 21:55 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2005-09-26 21:56 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-26 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 22:29 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27 4:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 5:02 ` Tom Prince
2005-09-27 5:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 9:40 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27 10:14 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-09-27 12:34 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-27 13:27 ` Josef Weidendorfer
2005-09-27 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 18:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-28 17:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-14 6:03 ` Peeling the onion Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <46a038f90510140048r30c7ec36n35f77a1ac52c4691@mail.gmail.com>
2005-10-14 8:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-26 22:37 ` Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects Junio C Hamano
2005-09-27 6:54 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-09-27 7:25 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-27 15:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 17:34 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-27 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-27 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
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