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Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 07:35 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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>> 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"?

Actually, I didn't. It is very hard to lose data once you put it in git; "by following recovery insn the user can redo" is often trivially correct thanks to it.

But it is not a very good option to cause the damage and then give recovery insn. The user might have ran out of quota, and even if he didn't, he wasted needless cycles for the unwanted sort of repacking.

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  1. Jon JensenAug 16, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 16, 2009
  3. Jeff KingAug 16, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinAug 16, 2009
  5. Daniel VilleneuveAug 16, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 16, 2009
  7. Jeff KingAug 16, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2009
  9. Mike GalbraithAug 17, 2009
  10. Jeff KingAug 17, 2009
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  12. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2009
  13. Jeff KingAug 17, 2009
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