On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > > I argue that this safety valve is useless for most people (and > actually I have hard time imagining a plausible scenario in which it > actually _is_ useful). It is only useless for people who use git ass a read-only "anonymous CVS" kind of thing. And yes, that may be "most people", but dammit, it's not the group git has been designed for. I would be ok with a "anonymous read-only" approach IF GIT ACTUALLY ENFORCED IT. In other words, we could easily have a read-only clone that added the "+" to all branches, but then we should also make sure that nobody ever commits _anything_ in such a repo. No merges (because you can not rely on the merge result being meaningful: the sources of the merge may be "ephemeral"), no local commits (because you can never "pull" any more after that, since that now becomes a merge with something you can't trust any more). In other words, if you default to the "+" behaviour, you basically can do _nothing_ in that repository except just track the other end. Is that useful? Potentially. But it's so clearly inferior to what we have now that you should definitely realize that we're not talking about a full git repository any more, we're really talking about just a "git tracker". Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html