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
> the proposed updates branch. If the parent repository has
> alternates on its own, that information should be copied to the
> cloned one as well (e.g. Jeff has alternates pointing at you,
> and I clone from Jeff with -s flag --- I should list not just
> Jeff but also you to borrow from in my alternates file).
Btw, looking at the code, it strikes me that using ":" to separate the
alternate object directories in the file is rather strange.
Maybe allow a different format for the file? Or at least allow '\n' as an
alternate separator (but it would be nice to allow comments too).
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 files that don't make sense anywhere
else".
Anyway, I don't think "alternates" is necessarily sensible as a "object"
information. Sure, it's about alternate objects, but the thing is, object
directories can be shared across many projects, but "alternates" to me
makes more sense as a per-project thing.
What this all is leading up to is that I think we'd be better off with a
totally new "git config" file, in ".git/config", and we'd have all the
startup configuration there. Including things like alternate object
directories, perhaps standard preferences for that particular repo, and
things like the "grafts" thing.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Linus
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