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Re: Alternates corruption issue

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2012, 17:38 UTC
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<7v8vkjstq2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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<20120203120215.GA31441@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> However, with the ordering change, there is a technically a regression
> in one case: a random file "foo" next to a repo "foo.git". Saying "git
> ls-remote foo" used to prefer "foo.git", and will now select the file
> "foo" only to fail.
Yeah, very true X-<.
> Thanks for noticing. I saw this issue when I was writing the original
> version of the patch, and meant to revisit it and at least document it
> in the commit message, but I ended up forgetting.
No, thanks for working on this.
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