From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:17:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] handling alternates paths with colons
Message-ID: <20161213181755.wrgu6drm45v7xhnl@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqshpr4s41.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:10:54AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > We do support non-absolute paths, both in alternates files and
> > environment variables. It's a nice feature if you want to have a
> > relocatable family of shared repositories. I'd imagine that most cases
> > start with "../", though.
> 
> Yes.  I was only talking about the environment variable, as you can
> tell from my mention of "colon" there.

Right, but we also support relative paths via environment variables. I
don't think that changes the conclusion though. I'm not convinced
relative paths via the environment aren't slightly insane in the first
place, given the discussion in 37a95862c (alternates: re-allow relative
paths from environment, 2016-11-07). And they'd probably start with
"../" as well.

-Peff