From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:09 GMT
Subject: Re: relative objects/info/alternates
Message-ID: <m3bq8tqs9c.fsf@roke.D-201>
In-Reply-To: <20071214140613.GA13259@bit.office.eurotux.com>

Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com> writes:

> Can I use relative $GIT_DIR/objects/info/alternates? Will the git
> commands work anywhere inside the working-copy despice the alternate
> being relative to the root of it?

>From the information in repository layout documentation:

  objects/info/alternates::
        This file records paths to alternate object stores that
        this object store borrows objects from, one pathname per
        line. Note that not only native Git tools use it locally,
        but the HTTP fetcher also tries to use it remotely; this
        will usually work if you have relative paths (relative
        to the object database, not to the repository!) in your
        alternates file, but it will not work if you use absolute
        paths unless the absolute path in filesystem and web URL
        is the same. See also 'objects/info/http-alternates'.

it looks like you can have relative paths in alternates.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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