Re: Alternates and push

On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 05:02:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I think you just reiterated what I said in "we could instead", and I think
we are in agreement.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying.  I thought you were
proposing that if $D/refs didn't exist, then if alternates pointed at
$D/objects, git would reject using it.  But that makes no sense, which
is why I didn't understand why you proposed it.  (Turns out I
misunderstood you.  :-)

The arguments to make are "Junio is worrying too much; depending on the
other repository's ref is no worse than depending on the objects the other
repository uses, and here is a proof that it is not just 'not a big deal'
but 'no problem at all'", "I've polled the userbase and there is no
existing configuration that will be broken by this change", and "I have
this configuration that will be broken by above change, don't do it".

So the only configuration I can think of that would be broken by this
is where $D/refs exists, but is insane.  (i.e., such that git fsck for
$D would result in errors).  That seems pretty unlikely...

   	 	   	     	  	       - Ted