On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 13:08 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I would almost suggest you make both my base tree and the stable tree > be remotes, instead of necessarily mirroring my tree and then putting > the stable tree on top of that. I think it's confusing to have a > mirror but than in that same tree have an extra (non-mirror) remote, > it sounds more logical to me to have two separate remotes.
I could make them both remotes. The "mirror" and fetching is more historical than anything. I use to only have a clone of your tree, and then when I started maintaining the stable-rt tree, I created the stable mirror as well. My workflow with git changed between the two creations, and what I have currently shows that. > > But yeah, you should always just be able to recreate things since > whatever you do your alternates will never have any extra work in > them, so you could just continue with your existing setup even though > it sounds a bit iffy. I may just keep my current setup. I'm now thinking that this breakage was a side effect of a previous breakage due to the brown out I had a while back. This is the same box that corrupted my linus.git tree that I eventually just deleted and recreated. As the cron jobs that update the repo (and the brown out, which caused my machine to reboot, happened during the cron job), it could have affected my stable.git repo too. This has been like this for a week or two, when I first noticed the missing tags. I was just busy doing other things to ask about it. Perhaps this has nothing to do with chained alternates and git gc going crazy. It could have just been my linus.git tree getting corrupted, and then the git gc run on my stable.git tree shortly after, and corrupting that too. I don't reference the stable.git tree as often as I reference the linus.git tree, thus, I didn't put the two corruptions together. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
