Re: [RFC] deprecating and eventually removing "git relink"?

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Nov 14, 2011, 06:06 UTC
Message-ID: <buomxbzutjm.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4ny7mtbx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>  (2) allowing two repositories that started independently to share objects
>      using the alternates mechanism after the fact.

Can they not already?

I mean, it works great right now to do:

  cd $REP2
  echo $REP1/.git/objects > .git/objects/info/alternates
  git gc

Do you mean a more elaborate UI that does this nicely...? or something else?

It might be nice to have a mechanism where new objects would update the _alternate_ rather than the object-store in the tree where the command was run... then you could easily have a bunch of trees using a central object store without needing to update the central store occasionally by hand (and do gc in its "clients")...

-Miles

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