From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:49:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree does not use alternate objects for submodules
Message-ID: <7v7gweiu7b.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120513172301.GA58961@book.hvoigt.net>

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).