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Re: [PATCH] Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 13, 2005, 16:22 UTC
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> This patch is request-for-comments.  I have experimented it and
> have a feeling that it may be more intuitive to make it relative
> to $project.git/ directory, instead of $project.git/objects as
> you originally suggested
I don't think you can do that.

I always felt that "alternates" should be per-project, but you're the one who argued that "alternates" is a per-object-directory thing.

Which means that the _same_ "alternates" file can be shared with many different project.git/ directories, and thus it's not well-defined to make it relative to GIT_DIR.

You can make it relative to "GIT_OBJECTS_DIR/.." of course, which in most cases is the same thing as "GIT_DIR".

		Linus
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