From af04fa2a78af3f4dc07bdc3e3018ccf3baa88c20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Heemskerk Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:32:04 -0700 Subject: upload-pack: ignore 'shallow' lines with unknown obj-ids MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When the client sends a 'shallow' line for an object that the server does not have, the server currently dies with the error: "did not find object for shallow ". The client may have truncated the history at the commit by fetching shallowly from a different server, or the commit may have been garbage collected by the server. In either case, this unknown commit is not relevant for calculating the pack that is to be sent and can be safely ignored, and it is not used when recomputing where the updated history of the client is cauterised. The documentation in technical/pack-protocol.txt has been updated to remove the restriction that "Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which it does not know exists on the server". This requirement is not realistic because clients cannot know whether an object has been garbage collected by the server. Signed-off-by: Michael Heemskerk Reviewed-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/technical') diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index f1a51edf4..b898e9798 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -228,8 +228,7 @@ obtained through ref discovery. The client MUST write all obj-ids which it only has shallow copies of (meaning that it does not have the parents of a commit) as 'shallow' lines so that the server is aware of the limitations of -the client's history. Clients MUST NOT mention an obj-id which -it does not know exists on the server. +the client's history. The client now sends the maximum commit history depth it wants for this transaction, which is the number of commits it wants from the -- cgit v1.2.1