Re: Alternates and push

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sep 8, 2008, 00:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20080908004137.GB8161@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4jfjyiq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 05:02:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> I think you just reiterated what I said in "we could instead", and I think
> we are in agreement.
>

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were proposing that if $D/refs didn't exist, then if alternates pointed at $D/objects, git would reject using it. But that makes no sense, which is why I didn't understand why you proposed it. (Turns out I misunderstood you. :-)

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> The arguments to make are "Junio is worrying too much; depending on the
> other repository's ref is no worse than depending on the objects the other
> repository uses, and here is a proof that it is not just 'not a big deal'
> but 'no problem at all'", "I've polled the userbase and there is no
> existing configuration that will be broken by this change", and "I have
> this configuration that will be broken by above change, don't do it".

So the only configuration I can think of that would be broken by this is where $D/refs exists, but is insane. (i.e., such that git fsck for $D would result in errors). That seems pretty unlikely...

   	 	   	     	  	       - Ted