Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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Of course, you can do this one branch at a time, too, if you want to, but
the above was meant as an example of how you can actually do all the
branches in one single pack-file, which is a lot more efficient (if you do
it one branch at a time, you'll quite possible end up transferring objects
that are reachable in other branches multiple times, while the "all in one
go" thing will pack each object just once).

It should transfer each only once if you recalculate "refs_in_b" after
each push, right?

Yes, you can do it that way too. It will possibly not pack as well due to
giving you fewer opportunities for deltas, but that's likely not a huge 
issue.

The one thing I can think of is whether things will blow up if the target
repository has heads that aren't in the source

Right. I think that's a "feature" of pushing: you cannot push to an 
archive that has state that you don't know about. Ie you can only push to 
something that is a proper subset of what you are (on a per-branch basis, 
of course - not necessarily on a "global" stage - so you could push just 
_one_ branch, even if another branch was ahead of where you are).

			Linus