Re: "git-send-pack"

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2005-07-02 14:22:30
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Any reason not to simply append objects to an existing packfile?

What happens when somebody screws up in the middle?

The one thing I care about more than anything else is consistency. We are 
careful about writing objects in the right order, and we can re-create the 
state from the originator etc. But if we start appending stuff and 
something goes wrong in the middle, I'm just not going to touch it. A 
"truncate and hope for the best" algorithm? 

Besides, the result is not a valid git archive any more. 

		Linus
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