From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:48:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-receive-pack doesn't understand objects/info/alternates?
Message-ID: <20070416184851.GH27533@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b30usth.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:34:18AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Theoretically speaking, not necessarily.  Practically speaking
> it perhaps may.
> 
> When Linus runs 'pack-refs --prune', your kludge symlink would
> not be of any help, as the command removes everything under his
> linux-2.6.git/refs directory and records the equivalent
> information in linux-2.6.git/packed-refs file.

Right, but I thought we weren't supposed to do running pack-refs
--prune on master.kernel.org since that would break users using old
git 1.4.x clients and who are accessing the repository over the http
transport.  Or are we not considering that supported anymore on kernel.org?
	
						- Ted