Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 04:55:21PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:43:55AM +0000, Steve Folly wrote:

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attach =
    echo "/path/to/mirror" > .git/objects/info/alternates &&
    git repack -adl &&
    git repack -ad &&
    git repack -adl

I don't think the first repack is doing anything (I showed it in my
example only to show that it was not actually working).

That's a bug, isn't it? Has anyone taken a look into it?

Yes, it's a bug. I don't think anybody is looking at it. I started to
write a length explanation, but the more I thought about it, the more I
am not actually sure what is going on. So please, if you are interested,
take a look and see if you can come up with a patch.

-Peff