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clone: --dissociate option to mark that reference is only temporary

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While use of the --reference option to borrow objects from an
existing local repository of the same project is an effective way to
reduce traffic when cloning a project over the network, it makes the
resulting "borrowing" repository dependent on the "borrowed"
repository.  After running

	git clone --reference=P $URL Q

the resulting repository Q will be broken if the borrowed repository
P disappears.

The way to allow the borrowed repository to be removed is to repack
the borrowing repository (i.e. run "git repack -a -d" in Q); while
power users may know it very well, it is not easily discoverable.

Teach a new "--dissociate" option to "git clone" to run this
repacking for the user.

Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2014-10-14 12:38:52 -07:00
parent 3c2dc76f01
commit fb1d6dabce
3 changed files with 46 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -198,4 +198,21 @@ test_expect_success 'clone using repo pointed at by gitfile as reference' '
test_cmp expected "$base_dir/O/.git/objects/info/alternates"
'
test_expect_success 'clone and dissociate from reference' '
git init P &&
(
cd P && test_commit one
) &&
git clone P Q &&
(
cd Q && test_commit two
) &&
git clone --no-local --reference=P Q R &&
git clone --no-local --reference=P --dissociate Q S &&
# removing the reference P would corrupt R but not S
rm -fr P &&
test_must_fail git -C R fsck &&
git -C S fsck
'
test_done