From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Folly <steve@spfweb.co.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 01:38:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100522053846.GA29118@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin5igmPVoISyyj2DtRV6OWagDq-boBkP6Zqq_z-@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:55:21PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:43:55AM +0000, Steve Folly wrote:
> >> attach =
> >> echo "/path/to/mirror" > .git/objects/info/alternates &&
> >> git repack -adl &&
> >> git repack -ad &&
> >> git repack -adl
> >
> > I don't think the first repack is doing anything (I showed it in my
> > example only to show that it was not actually working).
>
> That's a bug, isn't it? Has anyone taken a look into it?
Yes, it's a bug. I don't think anybody is looking at it. I started to
write a length explanation, but the more I thought about it, the more I
am not actually sure what is going on. So please, if you are interested,
take a look and see if you can come up with a patch.
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-22 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 23:54 Retrospectively add alternates to a repository? Steve Folly
2010-02-27 2:37 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-27 8:34 ` Jeff King
2010-02-27 11:43 ` Steve Folly
2010-02-27 12:30 ` Jeff King
2010-05-16 13:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-05-22 5:38 ` Jeff King [this message]
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