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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reachable: only mark local objects as recent
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:18:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq618ur7un.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150417132824.GA13192@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:28:25 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:00:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > It is possible that we may drop an object that is depended
>> > upon by another object in the alternate. For example,
>> > imagine two repositories, A and B, with A pointing to B as
>> > an alternate. Now imagine a commit that is in B which
>> > references a tree that is only in A. Traversing from recent
>> > objects in B might prevent A from dropping that tree. But
>> > this case isn't worth covering. Repo B should take
>> > responsibility for its own objects. It would never have had
>> > the commit in the first place if it did not also have the
>> > tree, and assuming it is using the same "keep recent chunks
>> > of history" scheme, then it would itself keep the tree, as
>> > well.
>> 
>> In other words, if you have a loop in dependency chain among
>> alternate repositories, your set-up is broken by definition.
>> 
>> Which makes sense to me.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
> I don't see this patch in "pu" or "What's Cooking" at all. Did it get
> dropped?

It appears that way (rather, "never picked up").  Thanks for
reminding.




>
> It does fix a performance regression, but the problem is in v2.2, so I
> don't think it's urgent for v2.4-rc.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-17 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-27 11:32 [PATCH] reachable: only mark local objects as recent Jeff King
2015-03-27 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-17 13:28   ` Jeff King
2015-04-17 17:18     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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