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
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next prev parent 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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