Re: [PATCH 5/6] Teach "fsck" not to follow subproject links

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

So I tend to think that alternates and shared object directories are
really for "temporary" stuff, or for *managed* repositories that are at
git *hosting* sites (eg repo.or.cz), and where there is some other safety
involved, ie users don't actually access the object directories directly
in any way.

So I've at least personally come to the conclusion that for a *developer*
(as opposed to a hosting site!), shared object directories just never make
sense. The downsides are just too big. Even alternates is something where
you just need to be fairly careful!

I was actually thinking that hosting sites (and things like gitorrent) would be 
the ones that would get the most benifit from shareing objects. the amount saved 
for any individual developer is probably fairly minor (and the individual 
developer could run a script to look across their objects and hard-link them 
togeather if they care about the space)

David Lang