Re: Git 1.0 Synopis (Draft v4)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 16, 2005, 10:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508161158400.3026@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy872fiin.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>   - Glossary documentation Johannes Schindelin is working on.

Yeah, yeah. Call _me_ lazy :-) I'll try to come up with a discussable item today.

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> - git prune and git fsck-cache; think about their interactions
>   with an object database that borrows from another.  This
>   includes the case where .git/objects itself is symlinked to
>   somewhere else (i.e. running "git prune" that somewhere else
>   without consulting this repository would lose objects), and
>   alternates pointing at somewhere else (i.e. ditto).

I don´t see how git could help in the case you are pruning a repository which another repository points to. After all, the first repository doesn´t know about being used by the second.

> I am sure I am forgetting something, but the above would be a
> good start.

Maybe your $GIT_DIR/remotes idea? Along with a "--store <remotename>" flag to git-pull-script?

Ciao, Dscho