Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is great - especially for places like kernel.org, where a lot of repos end up being related to each other, yet independent. Yes. There is one shortcoming in the current git-clone -s in

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: Finally, I have to say that that info directory is confusing. Namely, there's two of them - the git info and the object info directories are totally different directories - maybe logical, but to me it smells like info is here a code-name for misc

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Btw, looking at the code, it strikes me that using : to separate the alternate object directories in the file is rather strange. Yes, I admit it one was done in a quick and dirty way. Patches welcome [*1*] ;-) Anyway, I don't think alternates is

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've got a git prune-packed, it would be good to have a git prune-alternate or something equivalent. If you have GIT_ALTERNATE_DIRECTORIES environment variable, git prune-packed will remove objects from your repository if it is found in somebody else's

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is great - especially for places like kernel.org, where a lot of repos end up being related to each other, yet independent. Yes. There is one shortcoming in the current git-clone -s in the proposed updates branch. If the parent

[PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
It was a mistake to use GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES environment variable to specify what alternate object pools to look for missing objects when working with an object database. It is not a property of the process running the git commands, but a property of the object database that is partial

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-13 Thread Petr Baudis
Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:09:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano [EMAIL PROTECTED] told me that... It was a mistake to use GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES environment variable to specify what alternate object pools to look for missing objects when working with an object