From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:31:48 GMT
Subject: Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git
Message-ID: <17171.39652.237263.484079@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508291006440.3243@g5.osdl.org>

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.