http://dustinatgithub.disqus.com/My github page.enFri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:32 -0000http://dustin.github.com/2008/12/30/git-alternates.html#comment-5710317<p>Might be a nice feature to add to your script (with suitable warning about disk space of course).</p>Raman GuptaFri, 30 Jan 2009 17:18:32 -0000http://dustin.github.com/2008/12/30/git-alternates.html#comment-5706600<p>Yes, unpack objects will do it, and yes it'll make a pretty big mess. I've done that recently with a rails project. Unpacking rails after setting up as an alternate ended up using something like 600MB of space.</p>dustinFri, 30 Jan 2009 14:51:09 -0000http://dustin.github.com/2008/12/30/git-alternates.html#comment-5701401<p>What about going in reverse i.e. lets say your photo album uses alternates and now you want to bring in all the referenced objects and erase the alternate?</p><p>I assume that would basically involve running git-unpack-objects on each pack file in the alternate, and then copying the objects from there to the photo album, followed by a git-gc and git-prune to get rid of the stuff that was copied unnecessarily?</p>Raman GuptaFri, 30 Jan 2009 11:48:17 -0000