From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bringing a bit more sanity to $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates?
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:01:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7va9y940zr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501E3F04.4050902@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:38:12 +0200")
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> I have some other crazy ideas for making the concept even more powerful:
Sorry, but the "a bit more sanity" topic is not interested in making
the concept powerful at all.
This is about making it usable with ease without the user having to
worry about "oh, I was about to shoot myself in the foot by running
repack; it is good that I remembered objects in this repository are
borrowed by other repositories" and things like that.
For the purpose of "a bit more sanity" topic, adding new things
users have to worry about to the mix, e.g. "what happens if my
network goes away? I can afford not to have access to these kinds
of objects for a while, but I must always have access to those
objects, so I can borrow the former but not the latter", is going in
the other way.
The ideas in your messages are *not* useless. Enhancements along
those lines may be useful, but they do not fit in the same
discussion of making the current mechanism simmpler and easier for
users to use the mechanism in a safe and sane way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-05 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-05 4:56 Bringing a bit more sanity to $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates? Junio C Hamano
2012-08-05 9:38 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-08-05 19:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-08-07 6:16 ` Jeff King
2012-08-06 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-08 1:42 ` Sascha Cunz
2012-08-11 9:35 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-08-27 22:39 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2012-08-28 19:19 ` GC of alternate object store (was: Bringing a bit more sanity to $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates?) Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-08-29 7:42 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2012-08-29 15:52 ` GC of alternate object store Junio C Hamano
2012-08-30 9:53 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2012-08-30 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-31 16:26 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2012-08-31 19:18 ` Dan Johnson
2012-08-31 19:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-01 4:25 ` [PATCH] fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote Dan Johnson
2012-09-01 11:22 ` Jeff King
2012-09-01 11:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] argv-array: add pop function Jeff King
2012-09-01 11:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays Jeff King
2012-09-01 14:34 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-09-01 15:27 ` [PATCH] submodule: " Jens Lehmann
2012-09-01 11:32 ` [PATCH] fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote Jeff King
2012-09-01 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/2] argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array Jeff King
2012-09-05 21:22 ` [PATCHv2] fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote Dan Johnson
2012-09-07 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
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