Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
> I think a warning (or even error) like this would be more useful:
>
> test ! -d $objdir && error... # current behavior
> test -d $objdir/objects && error "Did you mean $objdir/objects, silly?" #
> new error
If it is an error common enough, perhaps we co
On Thu, Nov 29 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> A co-worker asked me today how space could be saved when you have
> multiple checkouts of the same repository (at different revs) on the
> same machine. I said since these won't block-level de-duplicate well[1]
> one way to do this is with al
On Tue, Dec 04 2018, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:59:26PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> This is the thing I was wrong about, in retrospect probably because I'd
>> been putting PATH_TO_REPO in objects/info/alternates, but we actually
>> need PATH_TO_REPO/objects, and