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Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Aug 29, 2005, 23:31 UTC
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Linus Torvalds writes:
> 	echo /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/objects > objects/info/alternates
Did that (s/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.git/ actually...)

What can one put in the alternates file? Just an absolute path, or does a relative path or a URL work too?

> or similar. That also makes gitweb able to show diffs etc, something it 
> can't do for a broken partial repository.

Gitweb still doesn't work; I think someone needs to update the git on *.kernel.org.

Paul.
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  1. Linus TorvaldsAug 29, 2005
  2. Russell KingAug 29, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 29, 2005
  4. Russell KingAug 29, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2005
  6. Paul MackerrasAug 29, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsAug 30, 2005
  8. Christian MederAug 30, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2005
  10. Sergey VlasovAug 31, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2005

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