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Re: git branch performance problem?

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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2007, 22:01 UTC
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2007/10/10, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>:
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> > Maybe gc --prune could follow the alternates and abort if a cycle was detected?
>
> Don't the alternates point in the wrong direction?  You'd need pointers
> back from the main repository to the repositories that depend on it for
> objects.
>
> Which would be nice....

The development repo was cloned from the main repo; then sometimes I cherry pick from development into the main repo. Hence alternates in 2 directions.

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  23. git-branch: only traverse the requested refsLars Hjemli, Oct 10, 2007
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