Linus Torvalds wrote:
>more corruption by hiding things (ie if you clone a repo with a grafts
>file, the result will now have neither the grafts file _nor_ the state
>that was hidden by it, so the result is guaranteed to be corrupt).
This is kind of confusing.
As I understood it from the few shreds of documentation that actually
mention the grafts file, the grafts file is *not* being cloned.
Therefore, my assumption was that cloning a repository that has a grafts
file gives an identical result to cloning the same repository *without*
the grafts file present.
As I understand it now, the cloning process actually peeks at the grafts
file while cloning, and then doesn't copy it. This results in a rather
confusingly corrupt clone.
I suggest two things:
a. That during the cloning process, the grafts file is completely
disregarded in any case at first.
b. Preferably the grafts file is copied as well (after cloning). I
never really understood why the file is not being copied in the first
place (anyone care to explain that?).
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Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
Differentiation is an integral part of calculus.
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