# relative objects/info/alternates 3 messages from 2007-12-14 to 2007-12-15. Participants: Luciano Rocha, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/11291 ## Luciano Rocha, 2007-12-14 14:06 Subject: relative objects/info/alternates Message-ID: <20071214140613.GA13259@bit.office.eurotux.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071214140613.GA13259%40bit.office.eurotux.com ``` Hello, 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? Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Luciano Rocha Eurotux Informática, S.A. ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2007-12-14 14:13 Subject: Re: relative objects/info/alternates Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3bq8tqs9c.fsf%40roke.D-201 In-Reply-To: <20071214140613.GA13259@bit.office.eurotux.com> ``` Luciano Rocha 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 ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Luciano Rocha, 2007-12-15 07:39 Subject: Re: relative objects/info/alternates Message-ID: <20071215073940.GA22118@bit.office.eurotux.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071215073940.GA22118%40bit.office.eurotux.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:13:09AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Luciano Rocha 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. It doesn't work too well, when a tree with relative alternat is used by another: error: ./objects/../../2.6.23.y.git/objects: ignoring relative alternate object store ../../linus.git/objects -- Luciano Rocha Eurotux Informática, S.A. ```