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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] read-cache: refuse to create index referring to external objects
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:54:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy5fdyhs0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BJZgyEn1n2GWgAVSGhSkVUO-P=GXwR02OcDf0ziTTRaA@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:48:26 +0700")

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail•com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> wrote:
>> This is not a tangent, but if you want to go this "forbid making our
>> repository depend on objects we do not have but we know about after
>> we peek submodule odb" route [*1*], write_sha1_file() needs to be
>> told about has_sha1_file_proper().  We may "git add" a new blob in
>> the superproject, the blob may not yet exist in *our* repository,
>> but may happen to already exist in the submodue odb.  In such a
>> case, write_sha1_file() has to write that blob in our repository,
>> without the existing has_sha1_file() check bypassing it.  Otherwise
>> our attempt to create a tree that contains that blob will fail,
>> saying that the blob only seems to exist to us via submodule odb but
>> not in our repository.
>
> Another thing needs to be done for this to work. The current reading

For *what* to work???  I think the performance consideration is the
only thing that should drive the read-order; correctness should not
be affected.

> order is packs first, loose objects next. If we create a local loose
> duplicate of an alternate packed object, our local version will never
> be read. Regardless the submodule odb issue, I think we should prefer
> reading local loose objects over alternate packed ones.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-24  8:42 [PATCH 1/7] sha1_file: keep track of where an SHA-1 object comes from Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24  8:42 ` [PATCH 2/7] sha1_file: separate alt object db from own repos and submodules's Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24  8:42 ` [PATCH 3/7] sha1_file: refuse to write commits referring to external objects Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24  8:42 ` [PATCH 4/7] sha1_file: refuse to write trees " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24  8:42 ` [PATCH 5/7] sha1_file: refuse to write tags " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24  8:42 ` [PATCH 6/7] read-cache: refuse to create index " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24 19:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-25  2:00     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-25 19:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28  5:48         ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-28  5:54           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-01-28  5:57             ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-28  6:06               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28  6:18           ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-28  6:36             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28  6:57               ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-24  8:42 ` [PATCH 7/7] refs: do not update ref(log) " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-01-24 17:45 ` [PATCH 1/7] sha1_file: keep track of where an SHA-1 object comes from Junio C Hamano
2013-01-25  1:38   ` Duy Nguyen
2013-01-25  3:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-25  4:02       ` Duy Nguyen

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