From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 21:18:20 GMT
Subject: Re: worktrees vs. alternates
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaVroLhEu+QmTwLCpv1irst5zbnQBzg7xLkfFy8cC9owA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180516191410.GA3417@sigill.intra.peff.net>

>
> You can also do periodic maintenance like:
>
>   1. Copy each ref in the forked repositories into the parent repository
>      (e.g., giving each child that borrows from the parent its own
>      hierarchy in refs/remotes/<child>/*).

Can you just copy? I assume the mother repo doesn't know about
all objects, hence by copying the ref, we have a "spotty" history.

And to improve copying could permanent symlinking be used instead?