Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates

From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Date: Oct 22, 2007, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20071022180424.GA17429@ginosko.local>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xex50aa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:13:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> People often start out with "clone -l -s" (or --reference) and
> >> later wish to dissociate the repository from its alternates.
> >
> > Why not make a really dumb script which just _copies_ (or maybe 
> > optionally hard link) the objects from the alternate repo, and then kills 
> > the alternatives file? That should be easier. You always can repack after 
> > that.
> 
> I think that is much safer.

Was such a script ever incorporated into Git?

-- 
Michael