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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: duplicate objects in packfile
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:54:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1308141451200.14472@syhkavp.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvc38ruah.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Also repacking may have a funny corner case. I do not recall the
> details as the above was a long time ago, but when I was tracking it
> down, a delta was made against one copy of the base object, and
> referred to it using delta-offset, while there was another copy of
> the base object which was found by the bisection search, and from
> there on, the inconsistencies between these two (they represent the
> same payload, but they are at different offsets in the same pack and
> with different in-pack sizes) led to some funky behaviour.

Crap.

Better try to cope with this (with a test case, etc.) rather than 
rejecting them now I'd say.  Strictly speaking, they're still valid pack 
files.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-14 18:17 duplicate objects in packfile Jeff King
2013-08-14 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 18:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 18:54     ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2013-08-16 15:01     ` Jeff King
2013-08-21 20:49       ` [RFC/PATCH 0/4] duplicate objects in packfiles Jeff King
2013-08-21 20:51         ` [PATCH 1/4] sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUP Jeff King
2013-08-21 20:52         ` [PATCH 2/4] index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objects Jeff King
2013-08-22 13:45           ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-22 14:43             ` Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:12               ` [PATCHv2 0/6] duplicate objects and delta cycles, oh my! Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:12                 ` [PATCH 1/6] test-sha1: add a binary output mode Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:14                 ` [PATCH 2/6] sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUP Jeff King
2013-08-23 16:41                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-23 18:24                     ` Jeff King
2013-08-23 18:54                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-08-23 18:56                         ` Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:01                       ` [PATCHv3 0/6] duplicate objects and delta cycles Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:01                         ` [PATCH 1/6] test-sha1: add a binary output mode Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:02                         ` [PATCH 2/6] sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUP Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:02                         ` [PATCH 3/6] add tests for indexing packs with delta cycles Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:02                         ` [PATCH 4/6] test index-pack on packs with recoverable " Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:02                         ` [PATCH 5/6] index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objects Jeff King
2013-08-24  0:02                         ` [PATCH 6/6] default pack.indexDuplicates to false Jeff King
2013-08-23 19:41                   ` [PATCH 2/6] sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUP Johannes Sixt
2013-08-23 23:37                     ` Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:14                 ` [PATCH 3/6] add tests for indexing packs with delta cycles Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:15                 ` [PATCH 4/6] test index-pack on packs with recoverable " Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:15                 ` [PATCH 5/6] index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objects Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:16                 ` [PATCH 6/6] default pack.indexDuplicates to false Jeff King
2013-08-22 23:35                 ` [PATCHv2 0/6] duplicate objects and delta cycles, oh my! Nicolas Pitre
2013-08-21 20:53         ` [PATCH 3/4] reject duplicates when indexing a packfile we created Jeff King
2013-08-21 20:55         ` [DO NOT APPLY PATCH 4/4] index-pack: optionally skip duplicate packfile entries Jeff King
2013-08-21 23:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-22  0:47             ` Jeff King
2013-08-21 22:17         ` [RFC/PATCH 0/4] duplicate objects in packfiles Junio C Hamano
2013-08-14 18:50 ` duplicate objects in packfile Nicolas Pitre

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