From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reachable: only mark local objects as recent
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:00:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8yyw9je.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150327113240.GA7781@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:32:41 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> It is possible that we may drop an object that is depended
> upon by another object in the alternate. For example,
> imagine two repositories, A and B, with A pointing to B as
> an alternate. Now imagine a commit that is in B which
> references a tree that is only in A. Traversing from recent
> objects in B might prevent A from dropping that tree. But
> this case isn't worth covering. Repo B should take
> responsibility for its own objects. It would never have had
> the commit in the first place if it did not also have the
> tree, and assuming it is using the same "keep recent chunks
> of history" scheme, then it would itself keep the tree, as
> well.
In other words, if you have a loop in dependency chain among
alternate repositories, your set-up is broken by definition.
Which makes sense to me.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-27 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-27 11:32 [PATCH] reachable: only mark local objects as recent Jeff King
2015-03-27 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-04-17 13:28 ` Jeff King
2015-04-17 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano
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