Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use ref transactions for fetch

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 11:40:28 -0700

Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]> writes:

> It would be pretty annoying to spend a lot of time fetching a big pack,
> only to have the fetch fail because one reference out of many couldn't
> be updated.  This would force the user to download the entire pack
> again,...

Is that really true?  Doesn't quickfetch optimization kick in for
the second fetch?