On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 03:23:40PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > + git config receive.advertisealternates true && > >> > >> Hmph. Do we have code to support this configuration variable? > > > > Sorry, I should have caught that. Our existing solution is to disable > > alternates in the advertisement entirely (since the optimization > > backfires for us). So this line is a leftover from testing it against > > our fork, and should be dropped. > > > > If anybody is interested, we can share those patches, though they're > > unsurprisingly trivial. > > Heh, I guessed correctly what is going on ;-) > > Even though there may not be much interest in the "all-or-none" > boolean configuration, in order to upstream this custom thing, it > may be the cleanest to upstream that all-or-none thing as well. > Otherwise, you'd need to keep a patch to this test script that is > private for your "all-or-none" feature. That's your maintenance > burden so it ultimately is your call ;-) Easy one-liners in test scripts are the least of my ongoing maintenance burden. ;) I think in this case, though, the line is not even necessary, as our patches leave the default as "true" (which is certainly what we would want upstream, as well, for compatibility). -Peff
