From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-index-pack really does suck.. Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:55:10 -0700 Message-ID: <7vhcrti04x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <81b0412b0704040251j34b0bc5eh1518eadcfa2ed299@mail.gmail.com>

<7vslbdi0hf.fsf@assign ed-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vlkh5i0e7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alex Riesen , Nicolas Pitre , Linus Torvalds , Chris Lee , Git Mailing List To: David Lang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 07 02:06:23 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZxKw-0001BA-9R for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:55:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933310AbXDFWzO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933313AbXDFWzO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:55:14 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao107.cox.net ([68.230.241.39]:40807 "EHLO fed1rmmtao107.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933310AbXDFWzM (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:55:12 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070406225512.INJC27119.fed1rmmtao107.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:55:12 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id jyvA1W00F1kojtg0000000; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:55:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Lang's message of "Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Lang writes: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Subject: Re: git-index-pack really does suck.. >> >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> David Lang writes: >>> >>>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: >>>> ... >>>>> You never know what pull is networked (or should I say: remote enough >>>>> to cause a collision). >>>> >>>> so leave it on for all pulls, but for other commands don't turn it on. >>>> >>>> remember that the command that linus ran into at the start of the >>>> thread wasn't a pull. >>> >>> Are you referring to this command >>> >>> $ git index-pack --stdin --fix-thin new.pack < .git/objects/pack/pack-*.pack >>> >>> in this message? >> >> From: Linus Torvalds >> Subject: git-index-pack really does suck.. >> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:15:12 -0700 (PDT) >> Message-ID: >> >> (sorry, chomped the message). > > probably (I useually don't keep the mail after I read or reply to it) Well, then you should remember that the command linus ran into was pretty much about pull, nothing else. The quoted command was only to illustrate what 'git-pull' invokes internally. I do not think of any reason to use that command for cases other than 'git-pull'. What's the use case you have in mind to run that command outside of the context of git-pull?