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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([136.51.44.64]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 586e51a60fabf-475543f5ac5sm8257322fac.8.2026.09.06.10.03.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 12:02:57 -0500 From: Justin Tobler To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Toon Claes , Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] odb/source: support writing alternates when creating the database Message-ID: References: <20260831-pks-odb-write-alternates-at-creation-time-v2-0-aecd2382ba1c@pks.im> <20260831-pks-odb-write-alternates-at-creation-time-v2-6-aecd2382ba1c@pks.im> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260831-pks-odb-write-alternates-at-creation-time-v2-6-aecd2382ba1c@pks.im> On 26/08/31 12:02PM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > +struct odb_create_on_disk_options { > + /* > + * Alternates that shall be written into the newly created object > + * database. Whether or not this option can be handled is specific to > + * the backend. > + */ > + const struct strvec *alternates; > +}; So ODB interface here still exposes a way to signal alternates to the backend, but an alternative backend may not actually use alternates at all. Out of curiousity, does this mean git-clone(1) options such as "--shared" should only be allowed to work with the "files" backend? Or should the expected behavior of such options just be backend specific? -Justin