From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Pickens Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Different views on a repository Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:13:25 -0700 Message-ID: <885649361002251213j4c48f720ree7e70848aafaef5@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Gruenbacher X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 25 21:13:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nkk5n-00029C-UG for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:13:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933618Ab0BYUNt (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:13:49 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.217.217]:46937 "EHLO mail-gx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933614Ab0BYUNr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:13:47 -0500 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so6030266gxk.8 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:13:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=EC8BSzzOggP/NyYtCrsg+ynHNInBTt/rjXhYj4WfW1Y=; b=AyYABMvWLRUgm7aaMvdVA3dXa9ak0ZocJjmiCiLC0+Skn6iZsp8zo4mqCx1JHrDPUU PZDVhoxwH85hK3j7V/kqohBasGDoXXgXhG1r6Z9GROqa/ywVyRxMyGqFn9ets69FfiCN +QQGRktl+zmTxn8diskFliCcxkrcGp+TqDOfE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=ljnaeEjr3HejheIqufeT2sbmnK91UKrLkw2K/t4osPJEgZzgJ594lTJiq9zxFcMbbL +7MkbLaWJFoaflQuRC6enj/ZukDbnbU6QfwrRx9kxY7Pcig3ykAJhdciOk9rq4Ol+Do1 l74I7dpj1OSw9SqHT+O0BRhPw3ca8R4175sQs= Received: by 10.231.147.70 with SMTP id k6mr683330ibv.55.1267128825153; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:13:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > we have a use case with groups of repositories which share lots of > objects, but which are logically independent. There is no strict > hierarchy between the repositories, the development modl is arbitrary. > The alternates mechanism for sharig objects between repositories won't > work. Can you elaborate on why alternates won't work? > The best idea I came up with so far to solve this Solve what? You didn't mention any specific problem. Are you just trying to save disk space by not storing multiple copies of the same objects? James