Re: Strange behavior of gitweb

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Nov 26, 2009, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID: <m24oogyh2o.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0911261225130.17259-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:

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> I recently ran across this strange behavior in the gitweb server at 
> git.kernel.org.  The following URL:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b62
>
> brings up a page containing commit 2d93148[...].  But that commit isn't
> part of the 2.6.27.y tree!  It belongs to Linus's main tree, and it was
> added long after 2.6.27.y was forked off.  The actual commit applied to
> 2.6.27.y was 070bb0f3b6df167554f0ecdeb17a5bcdb1cd7b83.
>
> So what's going on here?

Nothing mysterious. Every tree on kernel.org borrows from Linus' main tree via .git/objects/info/alternates, thus includes its whole object database by reference.

Andreas.

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