On Mon, 29 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Some long-running (in git terms) git programs will look up the pack-files > when they start, and if you repack after that, they won't see the new > pack-file, but they _will_ notice that the unpacked files are no longer > there, and will be very unhappy indeed. We should be able to fix this, right? If an object isn't found in packs or unpacked, look for new packs; if there are any, look for the object in them; if it's not there, then give up. The only tricky thing is making it possible to scan through the available packs without installing any that are already installed. I think the failure case is only a critical path in the history-walking fetch code, which should probably disable this (or defer it to after trying to download the object). -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html