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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:13:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8xex50aa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702151638130.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:39:44 +0100 (CET)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-15  7:51 [PATCH] Dissociating a repository from its alternates Junio C Hamano
2007-02-15  9:37 ` [PATCH +1] " Junio C Hamano
2007-02-15 15:39 ` [PATCH] " Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-16 20:13   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-10-22 18:04     ` Michael Hendricks
2007-10-22 19:05       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-22 23:30         ` Michael Hendricks
2007-10-23  0:13           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-16 19:11 ` James Cloos

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