2007/10/10, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > IOW: alternates are dangerous. A shared object directory is dangerous. You > should basically only do it under very controlled circumstances, and > otherwise you should use either hardlinks or if you want added safety, > totally separate repositories. I recall reading a few months ago that it was "clone -l" that gave you the jeebies, rather than "clone -s". > So the rule really is: never *ever* do anything but fast-forward in a repo >[..] Methinks this is all too difficult. I will use clone -l henceforth. Is there any reason to prefer -s over -l? Given your lengthy exposition on the dangers of alternates, I would say this is a features that deserves to be buried or at least deemphasized in the documentation. For cherrypicking convenience, I would still appreciate it if there was a mechanism similar to alternates that would allow me to view objects from an alternate repo; objects found through this mechanism should never be assumed to be present in the database, of course. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen - 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
