Re: [PATCH] Transitively read alternatives

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 1, 2006, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wvdsbuj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060501203631.GH20847@admingilde.org>

Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:

> When adding an alternate object store then add entries from its
> info/alternates files, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>

Happy. Sometimes it pays off to leave things that can be improved as they are, mention just "we might want to do this instead", and forget about it myself. Somebody else comes in and fixes it for me ;-).

If you have a local copy of Linus, Jeff and David trees, you could arrange Jeff tree to borrow from Linus and David, and David tree to borrow from Linus and Jeff. I wonder what the new code does when you add a new repository that borrows from Jeff and David. Does it borrow from Linus twice? Four times? Does it stop without falling into endless recursion? I did not do this myself because I was lazy and did not want to address these issues.