From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:25:59 GMT
Subject: Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories
Message-ID: <20090817072559.GA9730@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v63cm3ntl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:24:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > I'm torn on whether this is actually a good idea.
> 
> I would understand if you were torn if the proposed change were to refuse
> to run without -l in a repository with alternates when --force is not
> given, or something of that nature.
> 
> But I can tell you that this "just warn" cannot be a good idea for a very
> simple reason: breaking and then warning is useless---it is too late for
> the user to do anything about it.

Did you miss the part where I asked "should we include instructions to
the user on how to fix this"?

-Peff