From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: git-receive-pack doesn't understand objects/info/alternates? Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:48:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20070416184851.GH27533@thunk.org> References: <8aa486160704160613t3ac17e4co9177ad91fda8eb36@mail.gmail.com> <20070416153040.GG27533@thunk.org> <7v3b30usth.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Santi =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9jar?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 16 20:49:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdWGN-0003cw-H8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:49:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754211AbXDPStG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:49:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754212AbXDPStG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:49:06 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:45671 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754211AbXDPStF (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:49:05 -0400 Received: from root (helo=candygram.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1HdWMO-0000y4-GR; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:55:33 -0400 Received: from tytso by candygram.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HdWFv-0000LV-Nn; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:48:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v3b30usth.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:34:18AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Theoretically speaking, not necessarily. Practically speaking > it perhaps may. > > When Linus runs 'pack-refs --prune', your kludge symlink would > not be of any help, as the command removes everything under his > linux-2.6.git/refs directory and records the equivalent > information in linux-2.6.git/packed-refs file. Right, but I thought we weren't supposed to do running pack-refs --prune on master.kernel.org since that would break users using old git 1.4.x clients and who are accessing the repository over the http transport. Or are we not considering that supported anymore on kernel.org? - Ted