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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Alternates and push
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:24:59 -0400
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On 9/6/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>  > Long-standing mis-feature in git's logic in deciding what to push.
>  > It's been reported a few times, but apparently it's hard to fix, or at
>  > least it never hsa been fixed as far as I know.
>
>
> This comes from an early (mis)design of git.

What happens if I set a remote in my github digispeaker repo pointing
to github's linus repo and the set a chron script to fetch it once a
day? The alternates link is still in place.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com