Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2010, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTin5igmPVoISyyj2DtRV6OWagDq-boBkP6Zqq_z-@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100227123056.GA22382@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:43:55AM +0000, Steve Folly wrote:
>> attach =
>>     echo "/path/to/mirror" > .git/objects/info/alternates &&
>>     git repack -adl &&
>>     git repack -ad &&
>>     git repack -adl
>
> I don't think the first repack is doing anything (I showed it in my
> example only to show that it was not actually working).

That's a bug, isn't it? Has anyone taken a look into it?

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Felipe Contreras