From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:10:48 GMT
Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?
Message-ID: <4325B698.1050805@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> 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