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From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:50:24 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:34:55PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > Also note that the http transport uses info/http-alternates for http:// 
> > urls. By the way, it doesn't make much sense that only http-fetch uses 
> > it.
> 
> I think it does make sense: nobody else needs http-alternates.

If you're setting an http-alternate, it means objects are missing in the
repo. If they are missing in the repo and are not in alternates, how can 
any other command needing objects out there work on the repo ?

Mike