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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:04:21 -0700
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:52:25PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...
>> Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:52:25PM CEST, I got a letter
>> where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
>> > In other words, to get such a pack, we'd _literally_ just do something 
>> > like
>> > 
>> > 	git-rev-list --objects-edge origin.. |
>> > 		git-pack-objects --stdout |
>> > 		uuencode
>> > 
>> > and that would be it. You'd still need to add a "diffstat" to the thing, 
>> > and tell the other end what the current HEAD is (so that it knows what 
>> > it's supposed to fast-forward to), but it _literally_ is that simple.
>> > 
>> > "plug-in architecture" my ass. "I recognize this - it's UNIX!".
>> 
>> Took me exactly an hour from mkdir cogito-bundle to cg-push to
>> kernel.org. :-)
>
> By the way, originally I just wanted to index and save the pack, but
> when trying to feed it to git-index-pack, I kept getting
>
> 	fatal: packfile '.git/objects/pack/pack-b2ab684daebea5b9c5a6492fa732e0d2e1799c8e.pack' has unresolved deltas
>
> while feeding it to git-unpack-objects works fine. Any idea what's wrong?

Yes.  You told the pipeline, with --objects-edge, to create a
thin pack.  By definition that is _not_ indexable.