From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:22:45 GMT Subject: Re: Strangely broken git repo Message-ID: <7virw3qs8a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20051012032646.GA14819@reactrix.com> Nick Hengeveld writes: > Oops, thanks for catching that - I'll fix it. That's OK. It turns out that fetch_alternates() function itself is now called from the main just once; it used to be called lazily and needed the call-once guard. > I'd thought about chaining the alternates, but wasn't sure whether it's > safe to consider all alternates in the chain equivalent. Well, I decided we shouldn't, because the original repository that has objects/info/alternates surely doesn't.