From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:01:48 GMT Subject: Re: git branch performance problem? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071010215317.GC2963@fieldses.org> 2007/10/10, J. Bruce Fields : > > 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. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen