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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: How to stop sharing objects between repositories
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:25:59 -0400
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Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
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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