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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:45:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F389567.8060108@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsjifids5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 02/13/2012 04:35 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> mhagger@alum.mit.edu writes:
> 
>> +test_expect_success 'prepare branched repository' '
>> +	git clone A J &&
>> +	(
>> +		cd J &&
>> +		git checkout -b other master^ &&
>> +		echo other > otherfile &&
> 
> s/ > / >/; but that is nothing I cannot fix locally.
> 
>> +test_expect_failure 'fetch with incomplete alternates' '
> 
> I am assuming that this "incomplete" means "this alternate helps reducing
> the number of objects we need to fetch from the remote, but it does not
> have everything objects we need, and we still need to fetch some from the
> remote".  Am I correct?

Correct.  Feel free to improve the description if you can think of a
better way to describe it.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-11  6:20 [PATCH 0/7] Make alternates affect fetch behavior mhagger
2012-02-11  6:20 ` [PATCH 1/7] t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch mhagger
2012-02-13  3:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13  4:45     ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-02-11  6:20 ` [PATCH 2/7] clone.c: move more code into the "if (refs)" conditional mhagger
2012-02-13  3:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11  6:20 ` [PATCH 3/7] fetch-pack.c: rename some parameters from "path" to "refname" mhagger
2012-02-13  3:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11  6:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] fetch-pack.c: inline insert_alternate_refs() mhagger
2012-02-11  6:20 ` [PATCH 5/7] everything_local(): mark alternate refs as complete mhagger
2012-02-11  6:21 ` [PATCH 6/7] clone: do not add alternate references to extra_refs mhagger
2012-02-13  4:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11  6:21 ` [PATCH 7/7] refs: remove the extra_refs API mhagger
2012-02-14 22:51 ` [PATCH 0/7] Make alternates affect fetch behavior Jeff King

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