From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:13:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Different views on a repository
Message-ID: <885649361002251213j4c48f720ree7e70848aafaef5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1267029680.git.agruen@suse.de>

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:
> we have a use case with groups of repositories which share lots of
> objects, but which are logically independent.  There is no strict
> hierarchy between the repositories, the development modl is arbitrary.
> The alternates mechanism for sharig objects between repositories won't
> work.

Can you elaborate on why alternates won't work?

> The best idea I came up with so far to solve this

Solve what?  You didn't mention any specific problem.  Are you just trying
to save disk space by not storing multiple copies of the same objects?

James