Re: please pull ppc64-2.6.git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Aug 30, 2005, 00:20 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508291706230.3243@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <17171.39652.237263.484079@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 
> What can one put in the alternates file?  Just an absolute path, or
> does a relative path or a URL work too?

Only an absolute path.

URL's fundamentally do not work, and relative paths end up being parsed as relative to where-ever the user happens to be (and some commands will "chdir()" into the .git directory, while others will not).

For a raw git directory like the ones on master.kernel.org, with a relative pathname (relative to the main git directory itself) the _pulling_ should actually happen to work, since that will be happening in the xxx.git directory using "GIT_DIR=.".

But anything who uses GIT_DIR=<something else> from another directory wouldn't be able to use it. That probably includes gitweb, btw.

So only do the absolute ones. Maybe we should define some well-specified meaning for relative ones, but it definitely isn't there now.

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> > or similar. That also makes gitweb able to show diffs etc, something it 
> > can't do for a broken partial repository.
> 
> Gitweb still doesn't work; I think someone needs to update the git on
> *.kernel.org.

Hmm, yes. kernel.org is at 0.99.4, and the objects/info/alternates thing was done after that.

It's in 0.99.5, though, so next time kernel.org updates its git version, it will automagically start working.

(And I use my own git installation, so it works fine for me, and I just pulled the thing without problems).

			Linus