# Re: \[PATCH v2\] odb: do not list our own refs as alternate refs in the quarantine

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2026-11-03 00:37:36 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2026/11/17848629
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2026/10/17817793/t.md

```text
"Kristofer Karlsson via GitGitGadget" [ref]
writes:

>     Changes since v1:
>     
>      * Changed the rule to "an alternate that is ourselves is not a source
>        of alternate refs", as Peff described it.
>     
>      * Added a "borrowed" flag to alternates, set when they are loaded,
>        which says whether they come from another repository, and used it for
>        --alternate-refs. Our own object directory is recognized either as
>        /objects or as the parent of GIT_QUARANTINE_PATH.
>     
>      * Documented this for --alternate-refs.
>     
>      * Added tests for rev-list --alternate-refs in a pre-receive hook, for
>        our own object directory set up as an alternate by hand, and for a
>        quarantine outside of the commondir.

All of the above changes make sense to me.

This unfortunately crashes with Patrick's odb-reload-alternates
series, but let me see if I can get a reasonable conflict resolution
or if it is more reasonable to ask you to rebase this on the other
topic.

Thanks.
```