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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Ivan Todoroski <grnch_lists@gmx.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:32:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319023231.GA10426@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201203182307.43599.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:07:42PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > I think the only sane solution is to write the values to a temporary
> > file, and do something like:
> > 
> >   git fetch-pack --stateless-rpc --refs-from=$tmpfile
> > 
> > Even if you put the tmpfile in $GIT_DIR, I don't think this should run
> > afoul of any read-only repositories, since by definition you are
> > fetching into the repository (but you could also just put it in /tmp).
> 
>    git fetch-pack --stateless-rpc --refs-fd=$n
> 
> and there would be no need for temporary file.

Yeah. That is a slightly more awkward interface for command-line users,
but this is really meant to be an internal-to-git thing (just like
stateless-rpc is in the first place). And avoiding a tempfile is a good
thing.

However, I think you would need to teach the run-command API how to open
extra pipes to a child beyond stdout/stdin/stderr.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-18  8:14 Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-18 11:37 ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-18 12:04   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-18 16:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-18 19:07   ` Jeff King
2012-03-18 22:07     ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-19  2:32       ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-03-19  2:43         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-19  2:45           ` Jeff King
2012-03-19  1:05     ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-19  1:30     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-19  2:44       ` Jeff King
2012-03-21 11:05         ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-21 14:28           ` Shawn Pearce
2012-03-21 17:14             ` Jeff King
2012-03-21 17:59               ` Jakub Narebski
2012-03-21 20:02               ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-21 20:17                 ` Jeff King
2012-03-24 20:49                   ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25  1:06                     ` Jeff King
2012-03-25  2:32                       ` Jeff King
2012-03-25 17:33                         ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25 17:54                           ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-26 17:33                             ` Jeff King
2012-03-27  7:07                               ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25 15:30                       ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-24 20:53                   ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] fetch-pack: new option to read refs from stdin Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25  1:19                     ` Jeff King
2012-03-25  9:39                       ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25 15:15                         ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25 20:00                       ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-26 17:21                         ` Jeff King
2012-03-26 17:49                           ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-26 17:51                             ` Jeff King
2012-03-24 20:54                   ` [PATCH/RFC 2/2] remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdin Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-25  1:24                     ` Jeff King
2012-03-25  9:52                       ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-26 17:24                         ` Jeff King
2012-03-27  6:23               ` [PATCH/RFC v2 0/4] Fix fetch-pack command line overflow during clone Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27  6:25                 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] fetch-pack: new --stdin option to read refs from stdin Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27 16:59                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 23:18                     ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27 23:26                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 23:48                         ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27  6:26                 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 2/4] remote-curl: send the refs to fetch-pack on stdin Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27 17:18                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 23:20                     ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27  6:27                 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 3/4] fetch-pack: test cases for the new --stdin option Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27 17:40                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-27 23:36                     ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27 23:43                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-28  0:14                       ` Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27  6:28                 ` [PATCH/RFC v2 4/4] remote-curl: main test case for the OS command line overflow Ivan Todoroski
2012-03-27 17:43                   ` Junio C Hamano

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