Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:16:26 -0700

Petr Baudis <[email-masked]> writes:

> Getting alternates list for http://repo.or.cz/r/repo.git/
> Getting pack list for http://repo.or.cz/r/repo.git/
> Getting index for pack 5111285cac0f895cd9367c9939ced68e2c43dcc0
> error: non-monotonic index
> /usr/bin/git-fetch: line 297: 30402 Segmentation fault git-http-fetch -v -a "$head" "$remote/"

Yeah, I think git-repack, git-gc, git-pack-objects and git-index-pack on
the server side need a knob to tell it to stay conservative because the
repository may be served over dumb protocols to avoid this problem.

That knob could even be called

	[repack]
        	usedeltabaseoffset = false
	[pack]
        	indexversion = 1