On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 08:42:50AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > At github my repo, digispeaker, has an alternate pointing to github's > local copy of Linus' tree. I ignored my tree for a month and then > pushed to it including 200MB of objects from Linus' tree. These 200MB > of objects were pushed up to the server, but these objects were > already in the alternates repository. > > What's supposed to happen? Is something broken in github's setup, or > does pushing not take into account alternates? Long-standing mis-feature in git's logic in deciding what to push. It's been reported a few times, but apparently it's hard to fix, or at least it never hsa been fixed as far as I know. I work around it by ssh'ing into master.kernel.org and doing a "git branch -f origin <commit-id-of-master-on-linus's-tree>". As long as there is one branch which is up-to-date, git will avoid pushing a huge number of objects to master.kernel.org. Of course, this workaround only works if you have shell access.... - Ted -- 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
