Re: Debugging strange "corrupt pack" errors on SuSE 9

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

On 6/20/07, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

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But because you push to a local repository (a mounted USB stick is
considered a local repo) then you don't get to negociate the pack
capabilities of the final destination, and therefore more "bad" delta
objects might sneak in again.

How does that work? So any repo we push _from_ can override (and muck
up) the destination repo, ignoring its config?

That sounds a bit broken - the pack being built for a local
destination should respect the settings of the destination repo.

But it does!  The problem is that _you_ are cheating it by removing the 
USB stick and mounting it somewhere else.

Then you're using cogito which bypasses things.

If you use pure git on the client machine, and actually use git-pull or 
git-fetch _without_ the -l switch then validation of the updated data 
will occur and there would be no way to muck up the destination repo.


Nicolas