On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:13:26AM +0800, jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There must be a way to make a "phony tree" or whatever to "attach to"
> so extraction can proceed. Be sure to spell it all out on the
> git-bundle man page as a reference in case some non-computer people
> need to do aforementioned emergency extraction one day.
No, that information may not even be in the bundle at all (unless it is
a bundle that has a 0-ref basis). In particular, if a bundle contains
changes between some commit A and some commit B, then:
- files that were not changed between A and B will not be included at
all
- the object pack in the bundle is "thin", meaning it may contain
deltas against objects that are reachable from A, but not B. So even
_within_ a changed file, you may see only the changes from A to B.
If the bundle has a 0-ref basis, then you can clone straight from the
bundle, which must have everything.
-Peff
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