From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:57:14 GMT Subject: Re: Alternates and push Message-ID: <20080909145714.GD10015@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20080909083551.GA10544@machine.or.cz> Petr Baudis wrote: > 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.