From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:40:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git-clone --reference problem?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604231137580.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604231122490.3701@g5.osdl.org>



On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I also forget whether we decided that non-absolute paths were 
> relative to the $reference directory, or to the $reference/objects/ 
> directory.

Just checked. It should be relative to $reference/objects, and we should 
strip out lines that start with '#', since we allow comments.

Blah. That whole shell-thing is cerainly convenient for prototyping, but 
it would be wonderful if we had some enterprising young soul that rewrote 
these things in C and made them built-ins. It may be wasteful to use C for 
this, but it would make portability easier, and we have all those nice 
routines for validating and building alternate db lists already that do it 
right.

Oh, well.

		Linus