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Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Aug 13, 2005, 12:08 UTC
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<20050813120815.GC5608@pasky.ji.cz>
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Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:09:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> It was a mistake to use GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
> environment variable to specify what alternate object pools to
> look for missing objects when working with an object database.
> It is not a property of the process running the git commands,
> but a property of the object database that is partial and needs
> other object pools to complete the set of objects it lacks.
> 
> This patch allows you to have $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/alt
> file whose contents is in exactly the same format as the
> environment variable, to let an object database name alternate
> object pools it depends on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

What about calling it rather info/alternates (or info/alternate)? It looks better, sounds better, is more namespace-ecological tab-completes fine and you don't type it that often anyway. :-)

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Message 2 of 12 in “Alternate object pool mechanism updates.”
  1. Alternate object pool mechanism updates.Junio C Hamano, Aug 13, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisAug 13, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsAug 15, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 15, 2005
  7. Linus TorvaldsAug 16, 2005
  8. Daniel BarkalowAug 16, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2005
  10. Use LF and allow comments in objects/info/alternates file.Junio C Hamano, Aug 17, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsAug 16, 2005

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