From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:29:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] for_each_alternate_ref: use strbuf for path allocation
Message-ID: <xmqqvat3at8u.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170124004038.njjevfku4v7kmnh4@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We have a string with ".../objects" pointing to the
> alternate object store, and overwrite bits of it to look at
> other paths in the (potential) git repository holding it.
> This works because the only path we care about is "refs",
> which is shorter than "objects".

Yup, this was probably copied from a lazy original I wrote ;-)
Thanks for cleaning up.