From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:39:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Change set based shallow clone
Message-ID: <7vzmdaiwg5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <edra0v$42a$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> [*1*] From Documentation/repository-layout.txt or
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/repository-layout.html
>
> You can be using `objects/info/alternates` mechanism, or
> `$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanism to 'borrow'
> objects from other object stores.  A repository with this kind
> of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for
> use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
> `objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores
> it borrows from.

Ah, you spotted an obsolete documentation again ;-).