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From: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:40:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125438048.9705.43.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508291706230.3243@g5.osdl.org>

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > 
> > What can one put in the alternates file?  Just an absolute path, or
> > does a relative path or a URL work too?
> 
> Only an absolute path.
> 
> URL's fundamentally do not work, and relative paths end up being parsed as
> relative to where-ever the user happens to be (and some commands will 
> "chdir()" into the .git directory, while others will not).

Is alternates unthinkable with URLs (e.g. remote alternates) i.e. broken
by design or thinkable but not there yet ?

Greetings,


				Christian

-- 
Christian Meder, email: chris@absolutegiganten.org

The Way-Seeking Mind of a tenzo is actualized 
by rolling up your sleeves.

                (Eihei Dogen Zenji)

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 21:41 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
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 [this message]
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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