From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ivan Todoroski <grnch_lists@gmx.net>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clone fails on a repo with too many heads/tags
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:17:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120321201722.GA15021@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F6A33C5.2080909@gmx.net>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:02:13PM +0100, Ivan Todoroski wrote:
> >Something in me feels slightly uncomfortable with that, just because
> >simple newline-delimited formats make it easy for people to hack on the
> >tool and feed input from unexpected sources.
>
> I understand what you mean. How about this:
>
> If both --stdin and --stateless-rpc are specified to fetch-pack, it
> will use pkt-line to read the refs from stdin before handing off
> stdin to get_remote_heads().
>
> However, if only --stdin is specified, it will read refs from stdin
> in a script-friendly newline delimited format, one ref per line. This
> is okay because when --stateless-rpc is not specified
> get_remote_heads() reads from an fd different from stdin so there is
> no issue with residual buffers in this case.
>
> This way you preserve scriptability for any other callers who don't
> use --stateless-rpc.
>
> How does this sound?
I think that sounds quite reasonable, and shouldn't be more than a few
extra lines to implement.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-21 20:17 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
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 [this message]
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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