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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl•rr.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Simon Brenner <olsner@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] deprecating and eventually removing "git relink"?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:58:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECB01C8.3050107@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111121221934.GA21882@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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On 11/21/2011 05:19 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> Yes, that is one way to do it. The big drawback there is that by
> using hard links, you can only share objects between repos within
> the same filesystem.

Yep, hard links requires same filesystem, but means you don't have to
have a central repo that you have to gc very carefully.

> So yeah, I think it's a perfectly reasonable approach, if you don't
> mind the hard link requirement, and your relink is something like
> "git relink ~/linux-repos/*".

That's the idea.

To sum up, it appears there are 3 possible implementations:

1) hard link + master repo with mutual awareness
2) hard link + no master repo or inter-repo awareness
3) alternatives + master repo with mutual awareness

With #1 you can auto relink when any child does gc

With #2 the repos don't need to be aware of each other

With #3 the repos don't need to be on the same fs, can auto relink
when any child does gc, but moving a child or removing the master repo
causes breakage

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-22  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14  0:38 [RFC] deprecating and eventually removing "git relink"? Junio C Hamano
2011-11-14  6:06 ` Miles Bader
2011-11-14  6:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-14  9:03     ` Chris Packham
2011-11-14  8:48   ` Simon Brenner
2011-11-14 10:34     ` Jeff King
2011-11-14 20:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-14 20:25         ` Jeff King
2011-11-14 22:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-15  4:48             ` Miles Bader
2011-11-21 22:09       ` Phillip Susi
2011-11-21 22:19         ` Jeff King
2011-11-22  1:58           ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2011-11-14 10:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-15  4:40     ` Miles Bader

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