On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 05:34:34PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
I may have missed some edge case, but I believe this entire workaround
isn't needed if you guarantee that the parent repo doesn't contain any
objects that will get un-referenced.
You can't guarantee that, because the parent repo can have its history
rewritten either via a forced push, or via a rebase. Obviously, this
won't happen in something like torvalds/linux.git, which is why it's
pretty safe to alternate off of that repo for us, but codeaurora.org
repos aren't always strictly-ff (e.g. because they may rebase themselves
based on what is in upstream AOSP repos) -- so objects in them may
become unreferenced and pruned away, corrupting any repos using them for
alternates.
I'm very interested in GVFS, because it would certainly make my life
easier maintaining source.codeaurora.org, which is many thousands of
repos that are mostly forks of the same stuff. However, GVFS appears to
only exist for Windows (hint-hint, nudge-nudge). :)
This should make you happy:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/microsoft-and-github-team-up-to-take-git-virtual-file-system-to-macos-linux/
But I don't know what the current status is or where it can be followed.
Very good to know, thanks!
-K
