From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: repo.or.cz wishes? Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20070826235944.GM1219@pasky.or.cz> <20070828041059.GK18160@spearce.org> <20070828111913.GA31120@thunk.org> <20070829041523.GS18160@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Tso , Johannes Schindelin , Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 29 19:12:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IQR5Z-0007gH-P9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:12:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756533AbXH2RMR (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756515AbXH2RMR (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:12:17 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:58454 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756195AbXH2RMQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:12:16 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l7THBYnH011436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:11:35 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l7THBXpP001887; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:11:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20070829041523.GS18160@spearce.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.747 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.30__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.185 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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