Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:13:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > >> People often start out with "clone -l -s" (or --reference) and > > >> later wish to dissociate the repository from its alternates. > > > > > > Why not make a really dumb script which just _copies_ (or maybe > > > optionally hard link) the objects from the alternate repo, and then kills > > > the alternatives file? That should be easier. You always can repack after > > > that. > > > > I think that is much safer. > > Was such a script ever incorporated into Git? Not that I know of, but "git repack -a && rm .git/objects/info/alternates" should do what you want. You can even make a script of it, add some documentation and a test case, and earn git fame by posting a patch ;-) 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
