From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: propagating repo corruption across clone Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:13:38 -0700 Message-ID: <7v7gksmza5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20130325145644.GA16576@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20130325155600.GA18216@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20130325200752.GB3902@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20130326165553.GA7282@sigill.intra.peff.net> <1364340037755-7580771.post@n2.nabble.com> <7vr4j1qzao.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1364410309241-7580845.post@n2.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Rich Fromm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 27 20:14:11 2013 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 1UKvnW-0000Ph-RL for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:14:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754090Ab3C0TNm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:42 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:39147 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754022Ab3C0TNl (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F0F9C9F; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:41 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=/PEk49bWdKr1wFvqG/P4zawBtTo=; b=lHVpgK Nh99umm2Ef9BtQkA9wD61vALB3v3vkN255fuDA3wJWusmabtnDV3UHBrsVjOD1FY 0TBCCKBE4Db5MpBs25fAe3w1YoBlXO5CLg4/qpnfDW9CPT25Cf4EnG7l6O9FhVNX HfiLHjN8Tbp2dNgqIx7aPXYlCrYHZALgOZtUw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=wNWUM0HQwjTWLPDhgHu1uUY5tVK5lY2B YcepLy5WZF7TSyL2kKG6ZLi17sFnWNvwp398OLrMhPzstZWN2ZEydMuvqD22Iwrl dzTTYSl/G6+XBQCN6tdLeth63BAnNNGo3ERTt13xhIccK7cGlKmcowWHV7FTA0FT 7fbfbIHYyEY= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCE29C9D; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [24.4.35.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 546FA9C9C; Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1364410309241-7580845.post@n2.nabble.com> (Rich Fromm's message of "Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:51:49 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6F17262A-9712-11E2-978E-B1692E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Rich Fromm writes: > Apologies if my questions are considered slightly off topic -- I'm not > positive if this is supposed to be a list for developers, and not users. The list is both for users and developers. > However, I think there may be room for some additional clarity in the docs. > The --local option in git-config(1) says "When the repository to clone from > is on a local machine, this flag bypasses the normal "git aware" transport > mechanism". But there's no mention of the consequences of this transport > bypass. Yeah, I would not mind a patch to update the documentation for "clone --local" and rsync transport to say something about byte-for-byte copying of broken repository. Thanks.