From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] t5700: document a failure of alternates to affect fetch Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:45:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4F389567.8060108@alum.mit.edu> References: <1328941261-29746-1-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> <1328941261-29746-2-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> <7vsjifids5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Jakub Narebski , Heiko Voigt , Johan Herland To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 13 05:45:43 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwnnK-00055Z-WA for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:45:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754867Ab2BMEpi (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:45:38 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:39330 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754025Ab2BMEph (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:45:37 -0500 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.69.134] (p54BEA12C.dip.t-dialin.net [84.190.161.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id q1D4jR3e025772 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:45:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.26) Gecko/20120131 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.18 In-Reply-To: <7vsjifids5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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/