Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> But for git projects, even alternates isn't safe, in case somebody bases 
> their own work on a version of "pu" that eventually goes away (even with 
> reflogs, pruning *eventually* takes place).
>
> So I tend to think that alternates and shared object directories are 
> really for "temporary" stuff, or for *managed* repositories that are at 
> git *hosting* sites (eg repo.or.cz), and where there is some other safety 
> involved, ie users don't actually access the object directories directly 
> in any way.

Actually that is not even true for repo.or.cz -- the site lets
people to create *forks* of the main project, and I recall it is
implemented in terms of alternates.

That's one of the reasons I never asked to take over git.git
repository there.  I have alt-git.git instead, which does not
allow forks.

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