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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Tom Miller <jackerran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch: document that pruning happens before fetching
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 23:46:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160615034629.GB3013@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Bbd0=vnbaj4-2m7WKfvWG6PfyXLg1h+970HPsak1hnMQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 05:36:35PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > or what would happen if the packfile
> > fetch failed (we'd already have deleted the old refs, but wouldn't fetch
> > the new ones).
> 
> Off topic, but this sounds like a bug to me. We could have kept ref
> update more consistent (maybe at some point we could even do atomic
> transaction update for all refs if there's a need for it).

I do think atomic ref transactions are a nice idea, and would probably
not be too hard to implement these days (the main thing is just
refactoring the deep call stack in git-fetch).

It's possible it could be annoying when you have a single broken ref
(and would prefer to just ignore it), but that _should_ be the rare
case.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-13 23:58 [PATCH] fetch: document that pruning happens before fetching Jeff King
2016-06-14  6:14 ` Jacob Keller
2016-06-14  6:17   ` Jeff King
2016-06-14  6:18     ` Jacob Keller
2016-06-14  9:36 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-14 10:22   ` Jeff King
2016-06-14 10:36     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-06-15  3:46       ` Jeff King [this message]

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