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Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Sep 12, 2005, 17:10 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 
> For kernel.org, you could say '/pub/scm/blah' in your alternates
> and expect it to work, only because http://kernel.org/pub
> hierarchy happens to match the absolute path /pub on the
> filesystem...
 >

Actually it doesn't. /pub in the root directory on kernel.org is just a convenience symlink.

	-hpa
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Message 15 of 18 in “Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?”
  1. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  2. Sam RavnborgSep 11, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  4. Roland DreierSep 11, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  8. Dmitry TorokhovSep 12, 2005
  9. Ryan AndersonSep 12, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  11. Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.Junio C Hamano, Sep 13, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 13, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  14. Daniel BarkalowSep 13, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinSep 12, 2005
  16. Tony LuckSep 12, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005

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