From: Christian Meder Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:40:48 GMT Subject: Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git Message-ID: <1125438048.9705.43.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: 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)