Re: [PATCH v2] odb: do not list our own refs as alternate refs in the quarantine

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 11:25:38AM +0100, Kristofer Karlsson wrote:
>
>> No, I think you are right.  The quarantine parent only matters when
>> the object directory is not under the commondir, which is rare.  Your
>> version is essentially my v1 without the "this is a hack" framing
>> (and also cleaner).
>
> What we really want is "where are we reading our local refs from" (to
> avoid reading them again). So even if you have an object directory not
> under the commondir, we would not find our repo again by looking at the
> parent of that directory.
>
> But I also won't be surprised if there is some arcane working tree setup
> that I'm missing.

With those historic environment variables like GIT_DIR and
GIT_WORK_TREE, and GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, any random arrangement is
possible, I am afraid.  I do not know if it is worth worrying about,
though.  We've seen people use out-of-tree GIT_DIR by using the
former two environment variables, and I can see why people find it
attractive, but I do not recall people using creative uses of
GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to tear /objects directory out of GIT_DIR, and
what the perceived advantage of doing so are..

> Anyway, what's in your v3 looks good to me. Thanks for fixing this!

Thanks, both.  Let me mark the topic as ready for 'next'.