Re: worktrees vs. alternates

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MFMartin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>

Date

May 16, 2018, 19:40 UTC

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On Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:37:45 PM Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 03:29:42PM -0400, Konstantin 

Ryabitsev wrote:

> Yes, that's pretty close to what we do at GitHub. Before
> doing any repacking in the mother repo, we actually do
> the equivalent of:
> 
>   git fetch --prune ../$id.git +refs/*:refs/remotes/$id/*
>   git repack -Adl
> 
> from each child to pick up any new objects to de-duplicate
> (our "mother" repos are not real repos at all, but just
> big shared-object stores).

... 

> In theory the fetch means that it's safe to actually prune
> in the mother repo, but in practice there are still
> races. They don't come up often, but if you have enough
> repositories, they do eventually. :)

Peff,

https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/122288/2

-Martin

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