Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 22, 2010, 05:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20100522053846.GA29118@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin5igmPVoISyyj2DtRV6OWagDq-boBkP6Zqq_z-@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:55:21PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:43:55AM +0000, Steve Folly wrote:
> >> 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).
> 
> That's a bug, isn't it? Has anyone taken a look into it?

Yes, it's a bug. I don't think anybody is looking at it. I started to write a length explanation, but the more I thought about it, the more I am not actually sure what is going on. So please, if you are interested, take a look and see if you can come up with a patch.

-Peff