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
next prev parent 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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