On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jan Harkes wrote: > If we see a complete object it will remain complete. If we find a delta, > and we have the base in the current repository it will be expanded to a > complete object. > When we get a delta that doesn't have a base in the > current repository it will remain unresolved and is written out as a > delta. But the point of the whole exercice is actually to avoid unresolved deltas. And you know if you have unresolved deltas only when the whole pack has been processed. If the base object is not in the repository but it is in the pack _after_ the delta that needs it, you won't have resolved it. If this is a thin pack with missing base objects for whatever reason you're screwed. If the delta has its base object in both the repository _and_ in the pack but after the delta then you will have expanded the delta needlessly. So your solution is suboptimal. The optimal solution really consists of appending missing base objects to a thin pack in order to make it complete, or error out if those cannot be found. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: 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