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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Subject: Re: clone breaks replace
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:34:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107213426.GB8693@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107205103.GC4629@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Transport machinery needs to ignore grafts --- otherwise, the two ends
> of a connection could have different ideas of the history preceding a
> commit, resulting in confusion and breakage.  A fix to that was
> finally grafted on a few years later (see also [2]).

Sorry, I walked away mid-paragraph and left out a crucial piece when I
returned.  Because transport machinery ignores grafts, garbage
collection must make sure not to remove pieces of the non-artificial
history.  It is the garbage collection that Dscho fixed with
v1.6.4-rc3~7^2.

Sorry for the nonsense.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 21:00 clone breaks replace Phillip Susi
2011-01-06 21:33 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-06 21:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-07 19:43   ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-07 20:51     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07 21:15       ` Stephen Bash
2011-01-07 21:34       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-01-07 21:44       ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-07 21:49         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-07 22:09           ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-07 22:09           ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 22:58             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-11  5:36               ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 17:40                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-11 17:50                   ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 17:56                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-11 18:03                       ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 19:32                       ` Christian Couder
2011-01-08  0:43             ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11  5:47               ` Jeff King
2011-01-11  6:52                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-11 15:37                   ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 18:22                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-11 18:42                       ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 15:24                 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 17:39                   ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 19:48                     ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-11 19:51                       ` Jeff King
2011-01-11 20:00                         ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-11 20:22                           ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 20:50                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-12  0:59                               ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-14 20:53                                 ` small downloads and immutable history (Re: clone breaks replace) Jonathan Nieder
2011-01-15  5:27                                   ` Phillip Susi

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