Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 22, 2007, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710221957360.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071022180424.GA17429@ginosko.local>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:13:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > >
> > >> People often start out with "clone -l -s" (or --reference) and
> > >> later wish to dissociate the repository from its alternates.
> > >
> > > Why not make a really dumb script which just _copies_ (or maybe 
> > > optionally hard link) the objects from the alternate repo, and then kills 
> > > the alternatives file? That should be easier. You always can repack after 
> > > that.
> > 
> > I think that is much safer.
> 
> Was such a script ever incorporated into Git?

Not that I know of, but "git repack -a && rm .git/objects/info/alternates" should do what you want. You can even make a script of it, add some documentation and a test case, and earn git fame by posting a patch ;-)

Ciao, Dscho