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Re: git-diff-tree does not use alternate objects for submodules

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 14, 2012, 16:49 UTC
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Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:
> Here is the simplest approach I could think of (not sure if its maybe
> too simple). On first sight it seems to work (even if I exchange the
> absolute path in alternates with a relative one.

Conceptually looks very sound and trivially correct as long as the objets_directory.buf is always absolute path (I didn't check, and I do not offhand know if read_info_alternates() was designed to work when called with a relative path in relative_base).

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  1. Orgad and Raizel ShanehMay 8, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  4. Heiko VoigtMay 9, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 9, 2012
  7. Heiko VoigtMay 13, 2012
  8. Heiko VoigtMay 13, 2012
  9. teach add_submodule_odb() to look for alternatesHeiko Voigt, May 14, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2012
  11. Heiko VoigtMay 14, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 14, 2012

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