Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: netsync doesn't do anything

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:15:43PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> However, the branches
> 
>  >> de.neofonie.home.ps
>  >> de.neofonie.home.root
>  >> de.neofonie.home.simons
> 
> -- which are also in the netsync repository --- will _not_
> get transmitted, no matter what I try. It is my
> understanding that they should be transmitted though.

There is a bug in netsync such that if you have A -> B -> C -> ...
arbitrarily much stuff, and A is in one branch 1 and B, C, etc. are in
branch 2, then netsync'ing branch 2 alone will result in the sort of
behavior you're seeing.

(The problem is that we refuse to store revisions that would break the
following invariant: if we have some revision R in our database, we
also have its parents.  The bug in netsync is that even if we're
transferring R, there's no guarantee that we'll transfer its parents.)

The workaround is to make sure that if you want to pull one revision,
you're also pulling its complete ancestry at the same time.

Does this fix your problems?

-- Nathaniel

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