From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of gitweb
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:58:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24oogyh2o.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0911261225130.17259-100000@netrider.rowland.org> (Alan Stern's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:32:48 -0500 (EST)")
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
> I recently ran across this strange behavior in the gitweb server at
> git.kernel.org. The following URL:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b62
>
> brings up a page containing commit 2d93148[...]. But that commit isn't
> part of the 2.6.27.y tree! It belongs to Linus's main tree, and it was
> added long after 2.6.27.y was forked off. The actual commit applied to
> 2.6.27.y was 070bb0f3b6df167554f0ecdeb17a5bcdb1cd7b83.
>
> So what's going on here?
Nothing mysterious. Every tree on kernel.org borrows from Linus' main
tree via .git/objects/info/alternates, thus includes its whole object
database by reference.
Andreas.
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2009-11-26 17:32 Strange behavior of gitweb Alan Stern
2009-11-26 23:58 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-11-27 17:29 ` Alan Stern
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