On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 at 09:41:31, David Phillips wrote:
Okay, good to know it's being worked on. I seem to recall the TU who looked at it mentioning that using separate repositories would use up more disc space but avoid this issue?
Slightly more disc space on the server, yes. One idea was to use $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, though, which means that we could still use a shared object storage. We would only need to store the refs separately. The other possibility is to tell Git to not advertise refs outside the currently selected namespace. I am not entirely sure whether that is a good idea and whether it would be accepted upstream, though.
I may be wrong, but this seems like quite a large/important problem/flaw to me.
I feel like this may have been discussed before—Is there a thread I've missed on the ML which covers this discussion?
No, this hasn't been discussed in public yet.
Thanks