From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:38:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Alternates corruption issue
Message-ID: <7v8vkjstq2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.