... to shot yourself into the foot. Two handed. With Uzis. Receipe for disaster: 1) In a repository have .git/objects/info/alternates point back to the repository's object directory. 2) Repack 3) Enjoy amazing amounts of disk space once the repository has been vaporized. I guess git might want to do a reasonable attempt at catching that sort of pilot error. Ralf - 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