From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 03:39:46 GMT Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7virx7njxa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > For kernel.org, you could say '/pub/scm/blah' in your alternates > and expect it to work, only because http://kernel.org/pub > hierarchy happens to match the absolute path /pub on the > filesystem, but for most people's default HTTP server > installation, they would need to say /var/www/scm/blah to have > alternate work locally, but somebody has to know that the named > directory is served as http://machine.xz/pub/scm/blah somewhere. Yes. We should probably have some well-defined meaning for relative paths in there regardless (eg just define that they are always relative to the main GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY or something). That would also allow mirrors to mirror the git archives in different places, without upsetting the result (as long as they are mirrored together). Linus