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)
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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