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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Different views on a repository
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:35:43 +0100
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On Friday 26 February 2010 01:45:33 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> A combination of the two approaches would be to "link forward" instead of
> "linking back", so that the consolidated view would maintain itself, with a
> server repo setup like this:
> 
> 	/repos/ABC:
> 		objects
> 		refs/tags/A/
> 		refs/tags/B/
> 		refs/heads/A/
> 		refs/heads/B/
> 
> 	/repos/A:
> 		refs/tags -> /repos/ABC/refs/tags/A/
> 		refs/heads -> /repos/ABC/refs/heads/A/
> 		objects -> /repos/ABC/objects/
> 
> 	/repos/B:
> 		refs/tags -> /repos/ABC/refs/tags/B/
> 		refs/heads -> /repos/ABC/refs/heads/B/
> 		objects -> /repos/ABC/objects/
> 
> This could be made safe by not doing garbage collection if objects is a
> symlink instead of a directory.  (The ABC repo could be garbage collected
>  as usual.)  Am I overlooking anything why this can't work?

Self reply: reference packing breaks this kind of setup.  Crap.

Andreas