From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Alternates and push Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:53:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7vljy3ic09.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <9e4733910809060542s5ede6d6m5bdb894c958ea8b7@mail.gmail.com> <20080906162030.GT9129@mit.edu> <7viqt9rvwm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080907234118.GA8161@mit.edu> <7vd4jfjyiq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080908004137.GB8161@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 08 04:55:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcWu7-000661-Us for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:55:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751792AbYIHCx5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751843AbYIHCx5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:53:57 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:40436 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750969AbYIHCx5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:53:57 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196B35FF0A; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5ACFE5FF09; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:53:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080908004137.GB8161@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:41:37 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 60CC30E0-7D51-11DD-A739-D0CFFE4BC1C1-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Theodore Tso writes: >> The arguments to make are "Junio is worrying too much; depending on the >> other repository's ref is no worse than depending on the objects the other >> repository uses, and here is a proof that it is not just 'not a big deal' >> but 'no problem at all'", "I've polled the userbase and there is no >> existing configuration that will be broken by this change", and "I have >> this configuration that will be broken by above change, don't do it". > > So the only configuration I can think of that would be broken by this > is where $D/refs exists, but is insane. (i.e., such that git fsck for > $D would result in errors). That seems pretty unlikely... I was more worried about "once $D/ started its life as an actively used and maintained repository, but it itself has been abandoned and its refs are not maintained anymore; only $D/objects are still in use", but even in that case, it won't be "$D/refs exists but insane" case, so we should be Ok.