From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Meder Subject: Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:40:48 +0200 Message-ID: <1125438048.9705.43.camel@localhost> References: <17170.25803.413408.44080@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <17171.39652.237263.484079@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List , Paul Mackerras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 30 23:42:24 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EADqx-0001Wu-T4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:41:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932483AbVH3VlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:41:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932484AbVH3VlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:41:08 -0400 Received: from shadow.prohost.de ([216.71.84.228]:16208 "EHLO shadow.prohost.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932483AbVH3VlH (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:41:07 -0400 Received: from blue (p54A208FA.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.162.8.250]) by shadow.prohost.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j7ULemA08180; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:40:48 +0200 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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)