Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 rem

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

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

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 f

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-clon

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 reposi

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Ok, so the one in the proposed updates branch says > info/alternates. > > With this, your recent cg-clone -l can be made to still use > individual .git/object/??/ hierarchy to keep objects newly > created in each repository while sharing the inheri

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about calling it rather info/alternates (or info/alternate)? It > looks better, sounds better, is more namespace-ecological tab-completes > fine and you don't type it that often anyway. :-) Ok, so the one in the proposed updates branch says info/alte

Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

2005-08-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about calling it rather info/alternates (or info/alternate)? It > looks better, sounds better, is more namespace-ecological tab-completes > fine and you don't type it that often anyway. :-) Thanks for the suggestion. Will fix and keep it in the pu b

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 ob