From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] Re: auto-packing on kernel.org? please? Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <435264B1.2010204@de.bosch.com> <20051016161244.GE5509@reactrix.com> <43527E86.8000907@didntduck.org> <7vzmp9xuwe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051016213341.GF5509@reactrix.com> <7vwtkd6rik.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051017060659.GH5509@reactrix.com> <7voe5o366d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051017174123.GI5509@reactrix.com> <7v3bmzzz30.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Nick Hengeveld , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 18 01:21:51 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EReH4-0003am-K1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:20:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932327AbVJQXUF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:20:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932370AbVJQXUF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:20:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:29588 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932327AbVJQXUC (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:20:02 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j9HNJrFC024127 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:19:54 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j9HNJquP016933; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:19:53 -0700 To: Daniel Barkalow In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.55__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.125 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > Wouldn't "git fetch http://.../foo.git/ master^{tree}" do the right thing? The pack pullers have trouble with anything that isn't commit-based, because they do all the "figure out what we have in common" logic based on the commit history. So if you fetch a tree, it by definition doesn't _have_ any history, and the pack pullers will always pack the whole tree. I think. Linus