Jeff King writes:
> We used to do that because the only way to correctly resolve them was by
> introducing a duplicate base object, and we did not allow that. Patch 2
> from my series loosened this, which makes index-pack work, but not
> necessarily the rest of git. And since index-pack is the ga
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 09:23:11AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> The implications of this make me slightly nervous, though. In the
> --fix-thin case, the resulting pack will have 3 objects:
>
> - A as a delta on B
> - B as a delta on A
> - a full copy of either A (or B) provided by --fix-thin
>
t5309 checks that we detect and fail when there is a cycle
of deltas (i.e., A is a delta on B, which is a delta on A).
It also checks the cases where we have such a cycle, but we
have an extra copy of the object either in the same pack or
in another one. These cases are recoverable, because we can
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