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From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: relative objects/info/alternates
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:39:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071215073940.GA22118@bit.office.eurotux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bq8tqs9c.fsf@roke.D-201>

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On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:13:09AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com> writes:
> 
> > Can I use relative $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates? Will the git
> > commands work anywhere inside the working-copy despice the alternate
> > being relative to the root of it?
> 
> From the information in repository layout documentation:
> 
>   objects/info/alternates::
>         This file records paths to alternate object stores that
>         this object store borrows objects from, one pathname per
>         line. Note that not only native Git tools use it locally,
>         but the HTTP fetcher also tries to use it remotely; this
>         will usually work if you have relative paths (relative
>         to the object database, not to the repository!) in your
>         alternates file, but it will not work if you use absolute
>         paths unless the absolute path in filesystem and web URL
>         is the same. See also 'objects/info/http-alternates'.
> 
> it looks like you can have relative paths in alternates.

It doesn't work too well, when a tree with relative alternat is used by
another:

error: ./objects/../../2.6.23.y.git/objects: ignoring relative
alternate object store ../../linus.git/objects

-- 
Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-15  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14 14:06 relative objects/info/alternates Luciano Rocha
2007-12-14 14:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-15  7:39   ` Luciano Rocha [this message]

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