From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jon Jensen <jon@endpoint.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:25:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090817072559.GA9730@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63cm3ntl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:24:22AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I'm torn on whether this is actually a good idea.
>
> I would understand if you were torn if the proposed change were to refuse
> to run without -l in a repository with alternates when --force is not
> given, or something of that nature.
>
> But I can tell you that this "just warn" cannot be a good idea for a very
> simple reason: breaking and then warning is useless---it is too late for
> the user to do anything about it.
Did you miss the part where I asked "should we include instructions to
the user on how to fix this"?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-17 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-16 0:04 How to stop sharing objects between repositories Jon Jensen
2009-08-16 8:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-16 12:28 ` Jeff King
2009-08-16 12:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-16 13:54 ` Daniel Villeneuve
2009-08-16 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-16 13:57 ` Jeff King
2009-08-16 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-17 2:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-17 6:48 ` Jeff King
2009-08-17 7:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-17 7:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-17 7:25 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-08-17 7:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-17 7:50 ` Jeff King
2009-08-17 6:19 ` Jeff King
2009-08-17 6:32 ` Jeff King
2009-08-17 6:31 ` Jeff King
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