From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git-clone --reference problem? Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1145810080.16166.223.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 23 20:41:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FXjWJ-000361-4X for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:41:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751440AbWDWSku (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:40:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751441AbWDWSku (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:40:50 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:29403 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751440AbWDWSkt (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:40:49 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3NIejtH015759 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:40:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k3NIei2W028293; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:40:44 -0700 To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.74__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.133 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I also forget whether we decided that non-absolute paths were > relative to the $reference directory, or to the $reference/objects/ > directory. Just checked. It should be relative to $reference/objects, and we should strip out lines that start with '#', since we allow comments. Blah. That whole shell-thing is cerainly convenient for prototyping, but it would be wonderful if we had some enterprising young soul that rewrote these things in C and made them built-ins. It may be wasteful to use C for this, but it would make portability easier, and we have all those nice routines for validating and building alternate db lists already that do it right. Oh, well. Linus