Re: worktrees vs. alternates

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2018, 18:02 UTC
Message-ID: <87h8n7bhro.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <099ff2bf-c0f8-60fc-7833-9b129dd4dffe@linuxfoundation.org>

On Wed, May 16 2018, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

> Maybe git-repack can be told to only borrow parent objects if they are
> in packs. Anything not in packs should be hardlinked into the child
> repo. That's my wishful think for the day. :)

Can you elaborate on how this would help?

We're just going to create loose objects on interactive "git commit", presumably you're not adding someone's working copy as the alternate.

Otherwise if it's just being pushed to all those pushes are going to be in packs, and the packs may contain e.g. pushes for the "pu" branch or whatever, which are objects that'll go away.