From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:53:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Alternates and push
Message-ID: <7vljy3ic09.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080908004137.GB8161@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:

>> The arguments to make are "Junio is worrying too much; depending on the
>> other repository's ref is no worse than depending on the objects the other
>> repository uses, and here is a proof that it is not just 'not a big deal'
>> but 'no problem at all'", "I've polled the userbase and there is no
>> existing configuration that will be broken by this change", and "I have
>> this configuration that will be broken by above change, don't do it".
>
> So the only configuration I can think of that would be broken by this
> is where $D/refs exists, but is insane.  (i.e., such that git fsck for
> $D would result in errors).  That seems pretty unlikely...

I was more worried about "once $D/ started its life as an actively used
and maintained repository, but it itself has been abandoned and its refs
are not maintained anymore; only $D/objects are still in use", but even in
that case, it won't be "$D/refs exists but insane" case, so we should be
Ok.