Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:21:22AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > >  (1) Such a user does not necessarily know a casual "git repack -a" breaks
> > >      the dependency, defeating the -s option s/he deliberately used in
> > >      order to save disk space in the first place.  Perhaps we can reword
> > >      this further to kill two penguins with a single stone?
> > 
> > Perhaps a runtime warning that you're about to break it?  This user may
> > not even be the one who set the thing up, no?
> 
> I'm not really sure what such a setup would look like. If it is a big
> hosting site like kernel.org or repo.or.cz, then probably it wouldn't
> matter much. The admins there should probably be running "git repack -l
> -d -A" periodically to consolidate the object stores (which can happen
> from this sort of repacking, or from people just pushing the same
> commits to their repos).
> 
> That being said, I can see there being setups where such a warning might
> be useful. However, we don't really know if the user _wants_ that
> effect, or if it is an accident. So people following the recommnded
> "here is how you break the dependency" advice will also get the warning.
> 
> I'm torn on whether this is actually a good idea.