Hi, On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 9/11/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > > > 1) In a repository have .git/objects/info/alternates point back to > > > the repository's object directory. > > > > What exactly did you think it would do? > > Recently, I have been through several machines at work adding a > canonical "/var/cache/git" under which we add bare repos that track the > "master" repos. After that, I add the paths to those repos to alternates > of any git checkout in the machine, and git repack -a -d all of them. That actually makes some kind of sense, as a use case which triggers that bug. > Both git gc (as an end-user script) and us -- we all need to be a bit > more friendly to newbies. ;-) Well, I am opposed to writing "Attention: the contents of this cup are hot, because after all you would complain if your coffee was not hot" on it; Give Darwin a chance, will ya? However, I can see that git-repack (and just that, maybe even only for some options) does the (potentially expensive) check if alternates points to itself (you could use make_absolute_path() to normalise it, and the result of getcwd(), and then compare them). Ciao, Dscho - 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
