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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: repo.or.cz wishes?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:11:33 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708291009570.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070829041523.GS18160@spearce.org>



On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> Not if I already have a pointer from B to A's refs.  repo.or.cz
> also has this same pointer:
> 
> 	git clone --shared A B
> 	ln -s A/refs B/refs/forkee

Now, this doesn't work well with packed refs, I'm afraid.

So I suspect that if we really want to support something like this, we'd 
need to do more than just avoid the recursion when you cross-link.

		Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-29 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-26 23:59 repo.or.cz wishes? Petr Baudis
2007-08-27  0:16 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-27  0:41   ` Petr Baudis
2007-08-27 18:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-27 18:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-27 19:09       ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-27 20:05       ` Martin Mares
2007-08-27 21:27         ` Jing Xue
2007-08-27 22:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-27 22:58           ` Sam Vilain
2007-08-27 23:17             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-27 23:27               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 23:38                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-27 23:30               ` Sam Vilain
2007-08-27 23:34                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-27 23:16           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27 21:58     ` Jakub Narebski
     [not found]       ` <20070828084939.GF1976MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>
     [not found]         ` <200708282356.10605.jnareb@gmail.com>
2007-08-29  7:32           ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-08-29 23:12             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-27  2:40 ` Sam Vilain
2007-08-27  8:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]   ` <20070828041059.GK18160@spearce.org>
     [not found]     ` <20070828111913.GA31120@thunk.org>
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708281230310.28586@racer.site>
     [not found]         ` <20070829042005.GT18160@spearce.org>
2007-08-29  9:54           ` Petr Baudis
     [not found]       ` <20070829041523.GS18160@spearce.org>
     [not found]         ` <7vr6lnszay.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
2007-08-29  9:58           ` Petr Baudis
2007-08-29 11:13         ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-31 21:09           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-29 17:11         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-09-01  2:58           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-27 19:49 ` Uwe Kleine-König

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