From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:11:33 GMT
Subject: Re: repo.or.cz wishes?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708291009570.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070829041523.GS18160@spearce.org>



On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> Not if I already have a pointer from B to A's refs.  repo.or.cz
> also has this same pointer:
> 
> 	git clone --shared A B
> 	ln -s A/refs B/refs/forkee

Now, this doesn't work well with packed refs, I'm afraid.

So I suspect that if we really want to support something like this, we'd 
need to do more than just avoid the recursion when you cross-link.

		Linus