Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] odb: ignore refs of shallow and grafted alternates

From: Igor Wiedler <iwiedler@gitlab.com>
Date: Oct 19, 2026, 11:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20261019110249.70341-1-iwiedler@gitlab.com>
In-Reply-To: <20261016031439.GA3437448@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 11:14:39PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> This seemed to fail the windows ci job with cat-file reporting:
>
>   error: unable to normalize alternate object path: /d/a/git/git/t/trash directory.t5618-alternate-refs/shallow/.git/objects
>
> Just a guess, but it might be the Windows vs POSIX path thing? So
> perhaps something like this would work (...)

Thanks, I will include this fix in the v3 patchset.

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