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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:30:13 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Which means that the _same_ "alternates" file can be shared with many
> different project.git/ directories, and thus it's not well-defined to make
> it relative to GIT_DIR.

Good point.

> You can make it relative to "GIT_OBJECTS_DIR/.." of course, which in most
> cases is the same thing as "GIT_DIR".

Again, good point.