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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of gitweb
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:58:07 +0100
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Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:

> I recently ran across this strange behavior in the gitweb server at 
> git.kernel.org.  The following URL:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b62
>
> brings up a page containing commit 2d93148[...].  But that commit isn't
> part of the 2.6.27.y tree!  It belongs to Linus's main tree, and it was
> added long after 2.6.27.y was forked off.  The actual commit applied to
> 2.6.27.y was 070bb0f3b6df167554f0ecdeb17a5bcdb1cd7b83.
>
> So what's going on here?

Nothing mysterious.  Every tree on kernel.org borrows from Linus' main
tree via .git/objects/info/alternates, thus includes its whole object
database by reference.

Andreas.

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