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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] deprecating and eventually removing "git relink"?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:06:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buomxbzutjm.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4ny7mtbx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
>  (2) allowing two repositories that started independently to share objects
>      using the alternates mechanism after the fact.

Can they not already?

I mean, it works great right now to do:

  cd $REP2
  echo $REP1/.git/objects > .git/objects/info/alternates
  git gc

Do you mean a more elaborate UI that does this nicely...? or something
else?

It might be nice to have a mechanism where new objects would update
the _alternate_ rather than the object-store in the tree where the
command was run... then you could easily have a bunch of trees using a
central object store without needing to update the central store
occasionally by hand (and do gc in its "clients")...

-Miles

-- 
"Most attacks seem to take place at night, during a rainstorm, uphill,
 where four map sheets join."   -- Anon. British Officer in WW I

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14  6:06 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 [this message]
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
2011-11-14 10:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-15  4:40     ` Miles Bader

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