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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:20:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050829192013.B20605@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508291057380.3243@g5.osdl.org>; from torvalds@osdl.org on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:02:38AM -0700

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:02:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The "objects/info/alternates" thing is an extension, which allows you to 
> have a partial object store, and point to the "rest of it", and still have 
> all the tools understand it and be able to parse the totality of it. So it 
> doesn't break or change old formats, it only allows a new one.

Ah, ok.  I thought it was a new requirement, and I had visions of
similar complaints about my repositories.  Thanks for explaining
the situation.

-- 
Russell King

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-29 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <17170.25803.413408.44080@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
2005-08-29 17:32 ` please pull ppc64-2.6.git Linus Torvalds
2005-08-29 17:45   ` Russell King
2005-08-29 18:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-29 18:20       ` Russell King [this message]
2005-09-02  0:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-29 23:31   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-30  0:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30 21:40       ` Christian Meder
2005-08-30 22:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-31 13:08           ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-08-31 18:39             ` Junio C Hamano

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