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From: Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz>
To: Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Auto-repo-repair
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:35:34 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd162e10-46a8-433c-80b2-c1c4185c2032@zcs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9Z-nmu2MiE9vF9T6Aw8vFTR8mTkuR3akHgZX6+=n3uA4fmpA@mail.gmail.com>


> >> How would the broken repository be sure of what it is missing to
> >> request it from the other side?
> >
> > fsck will find missing objects.
> 
> And what about the objects referred to by objects that are missing?

Will be fetched after multiple iterations.
We could even introduce some 'fsck --autorepair' mode, which triggers
it to fetch any missing object from its remotes.

Maybe even introduce a concept of peer object stores, which (a bit like
alternates) are asked for objects that arent locally availabe - that
could be even a plain venti store.


cu
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards 

Enrico Weigelt 
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-19 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0c0e34a4-16ab-40a0-9293-af94e34e4290@zcs>
2012-11-16 17:51 ` Auto-repo-repair Enrico Weigelt
2012-11-16 19:00   ` Auto-repo-repair Jeff King
2012-11-17  9:21     ` Auto-repo-repair Enrico Weigelt
2012-11-18 16:37       ` Auto-repo-repair Drew Northup
2012-11-18 16:55         ` Auto-repo-repair Enrico Weigelt
2012-11-19  3:30           ` Auto-repo-repair Drew Northup
2012-11-19 22:35             ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2012-11-20 11:56               ` Auto-repo-repair Drew Northup
2012-11-22 23:16                 ` Auto-repo-repair Enrico Weigelt

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