On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So I tend to think that alternates and shared object directories are really for "temporary" stuff, or for *managed* repositories that are at git *hosting* sites (eg repo.or.cz), and where there is some other safety involved, ie users don't actually access the object directories directly in any way. So I've at least personally come to the conclusion that for a *developer* (as opposed to a hosting site!), shared object directories just never make sense. The downsides are just too big. Even alternates is something where you just need to be fairly careful!
I was actually thinking that hosting sites (and things like gitorrent) would be the ones that would get the most benifit from shareing objects. the amount saved for any individual developer is probably fairly minor (and the individual developer could run a script to look across their objects and hard-link them togeather if they care about the space)
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