Re: garbage in the cogito.git repository

Dear diary, on Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:42:28PM CEST, I got a letter
where Sergey Vlasov [off-list ref] told me that...

Hello!

Hi,

Today's pull from rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/cogito/cogito.git
downloaded more than 10 MB.  It seems that the cogito.git repository
currently contains all objects in unpacked form, even though most of
that objects are already in pack files.

Also there are two mysterious files:

objects/base.idx
objects/base.pack

Could this be fixed?

yes, sorry about this. Packs got there through rsyncs all the way from
git-core, and my immediate naive git-unpack-objects didn't actually do
anything since all the objects were, well, in
.git/objects/pack/thatpackfile. Obviously, this behaviour is reasonable
when you think about it, but rather pitfallous, I would say. At least
documenting it might be worthwhile.

BTW, if you pull now, be prepared to get git-core from elsewhere, since
it will disappear from under your hands as I just unbundled it from
Cogito. ;-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone.  -- Alan Cox

Dear diary, on Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:06:13AM CEST, I got a letter
where Petr Baudis [off-list ref] told me that...

yes, sorry about this. Packs got there through rsyncs all the way from
git-core, and my immediate naive git-unpack-objects didn't actually do
anything since all the objects were, well, in
.git/objects/pack/thatpackfile. Obviously, this behaviour is reasonable
when you think about it, but rather pitfallous, I would say. At least
documenting it might be worthwhile.

To clarify, I want to use packs, yes. But plenty of Cogito users are
using HTTP and I want to give them some time to upgrade to the latest
Git which supports pulling packs over HTTP. I'd say at least two to
three weeks or me getting near the top of kernel.org object users,
whichever comes first. :-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone.  -- Alan Cox