From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:43:13 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git clone' doesn't use alternates automatically?
Message-ID: <885649360901311343r2a9bd1b5l5f8226218000dbe8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3tz7fw5ek.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So, is there any reason 'git clone' shouldn't automatically use
>> the alternates that it copied into the new repository?  I might
>> look into writing a patch if nobody objects.
>
> Alternates are fragile with respect to garbage collecting in the
> repository you borrow objects from.

I think that's irrelevant in this case.  The scenario is that I
clone repo A, which is borrowing objects from repo B.  So repo A
was already assuming that it's safe to borrow from B.

The current behavior is that the clone of A also borrows from B
automatically.  What I am asking is whether 'git clone' should
take advantage of that to avoid copying redundant objects from A
into the clone.  They will get deleted the first time I run 'git
gc' in the clone anyways.

James