Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Feb 8, 2008, 22:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20080208220356.GA22064@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802082151570.11591@racer.site>

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:52:08PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> [I'll just Cc you, out of the goodness of my heart.]
> 
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> > 
> > >> +     struct stat st;
> > >> +     const char remote_alt_file_name[] = "info/remote_alternates";
> > > 
> > > <bikeshedding>maybe remote-alternates (note the dash instead 
> > > of the underscore)</bikeshedding>
> > 
> > Why not in info/alternates?
> 
> Again, to make the distinction clear.
> 
> Also note that info/alternates is used by the http transport (which would 
> then break semi-silently, because I expect that you usually put git:// 
> urls into remote-alternates).

Also note that the http transport uses info/http-alternates for http:// urls. By the way, it doesn't make much sense that only http-fetch uses it.

Mike