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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Marek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 09/21] Remember how a Ref was read in from disk and created
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:17:53 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806291516540.9925@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806291551.06201.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

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Hi,

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> söndagen den 29 juni 2008 09.59.19 skrev Shawn O. Pearce:
> > To efficiently deleted or update a ref we need to know where it came 
> > from when it was read into the process.  If the ref is being updated 
> > we can usually just write the loose file, but if it is being deleted 
> > we may need to remove not just a loose file but also delete it from 
> > the packed-refs.
> 
> One could argue that we should not normally just delete a ref, but mark 
> it as deleted and let git gc delete it when it expires, just like any 
> old ref, but then we should try to get C Git to do the same. There was a 
> thread relating to this recently.

... but it petered out, so you should consider any ideas in that thread 
rejected.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-29 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-29  7:59 [JGIT PATCH 00/21] Push support over SFTP and (encrypted) Amazon S3 Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59 ` [JGIT PATCH 01/21] Remove unused index files when WalkFetchConnection closes Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59   ` [JGIT PATCH 02/21] Do not show URIish passwords in TransportExceptions Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59     ` [JGIT PATCH 03/21] Use PackedObjectInfo as a base class for PackWriter's ObjectToPack Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59       ` [JGIT PATCH 04/21] Refactor PackWriter to hold onto the sorted object list Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59         ` [JGIT PATCH 05/21] Save the pack checksum after computing it in PackWriter Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59           ` [JGIT PATCH 06/21] Allow PackIndexWriter to use any subclass of PackedObjectInfo Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59             ` [JGIT PATCH 07/21] Allow PackWriter to create a corresponding index file Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59               ` [JGIT PATCH 08/21] Allow PackWriter to prepare object list and compute name before writing Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                 ` [JGIT PATCH 09/21] Remember how a Ref was read in from disk and created Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                   ` [JGIT PATCH 10/21] Simplify walker transport ref advertisement setup Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                     ` [JGIT PATCH 11/21] Indicate the protocol jgit doesn't support push over Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                       ` [JGIT PATCH 12/21] WalkTransport must allow subclasses to implement openPush Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                         ` [JGIT PATCH 13/21] Support push over the sftp:// dumb transport Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                           ` [JGIT PATCH 14/21] Extract readPackedRefs from TransportSftp for reuse Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                             ` [JGIT PATCH 15/21] Specialized byte array output stream for large files Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                               ` [JGIT PATCH 16/21] Add Robert Harder's public domain Base64 encoding utility Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                                 ` [JGIT PATCH 17/21] Misc. documentation fixes to Base64 utility Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                                   ` [JGIT PATCH 18/21] Extract the basic HTTP proxy support to its own class Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                                     ` [JGIT PATCH 19/21] Create a really simple Amazon S3 REST client Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                                       ` [JGIT PATCH 20/21] Add client side encryption to Amazon S3 client library Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29  7:59                                         ` [JGIT PATCH 21/21] Bidirectional protocol support for Amazon S3 Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29 13:51                                 ` [JGIT PATCH 16/21] Add Robert Harder's public domain Base64 encoding utility Robin Rosenberg
2008-06-29 18:06                                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-29 13:51                   ` [JGIT PATCH 09/21] Remember how a Ref was read in from disk and created Robin Rosenberg
2008-06-29 14:17                     ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-06-29 18:00                       ` Shawn O. Pearce

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