From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Hendricks Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:04:28 -0600 Message-ID: <20071022180424.GA17429@ginosko.local> References: <7vabzfhn9q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v8xex50aa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 22 20:04:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ik1dv-0001kA-OA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:04:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751724AbXJVSEd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751880AbXJVSEd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:33 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:43882 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751681AbXJVSEc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:32 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC17034C6E; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:31 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: ekqjAGz0Rv2q1eJLOvtnqDtWRUJk7vIbg4aN3w803Hdp 1193076271 Received: from ndrix.org (tameion.ndrix.org [166.230.131.80]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF31707C; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:04:30 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8xex50aa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:13:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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? -- Michael