Re: Alternates and push

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 9, 2008, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20080909145714.GD10015@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080909083551.GA10544@machine.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > github should do what repo.or.cz does:
> > 
> > 	ln -s .../linus.git/refs digispeaker.git/refs/forkee
> 
> But it should be used only in controlled environment. If you happen to
> have permissions to write to the forkee, you can wipe out its refs with
> git fetch --mirror (and if you don't happen to have permissions, it will
> just fail, so currently you cannot use this on repo.or.cz forks,
> unfortunately). If you don't make sure refs are never packed (I do on
> repo.or.cz, historically because of dumb transports - do they support
> packed refs by now?), this won't work either. Maybe there are other
> considerations too.

All very good points.

The dumb transports do support packed-refs in more modern versions. I forget when they learned it though. Being nice to them by not packing refs is still good if you can.

-- 
Shawn.