From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: BEWARE: mkdelta is broken Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:32:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 27 03:42:28 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbTrI-0006vn-LW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 03:41:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261422AbVE0BnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 21:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261440AbVE0Bfm (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 21:35:42 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:43332 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261407AbVE0BcU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 21:32:20 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([24.200.213.96]) by VL-MO-MR011.ip.videotron.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IH400BASK9VZI@VL-MO-MR011.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 21:32:19 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Please don't use mkdelta on a valuable repository for the time being. The current delta loop detection logic is broken. So if you have multiple merged branches or you have a changeset that revert things then you might end up with a delta loop and fsck-cache will effectively complain about unresolved deltas and assorted dangling/broken object links. I'm working on a fix right now. Nicolas