From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:30:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?
Message-ID: <20100227123056.GA22382@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100227T123539-643@post.gmane.org>

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:43:55AM +0000, Steve Folly wrote:

> I now have a plan to write a script to attach and
> detach repositories to and from local mirrors on demand:

I think they should work, but:

> attach = 
>     echo "/path/to/mirror" > .git/objects/info/alternates && 
>     git repack -adl && 
>     git repack -ad && 
>     git repack -adl

I don't think the first repack is doing anything (I showed it in my
example only to show that it was not actually working).

-Peff