On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> >
> > What can one put in the alternates file? Just an absolute path, or
> > does a relative path or a URL work too?
>
> Only an absolute path.
>
> URL's fundamentally do not work, and relative paths end up being parsed as
> relative to where-ever the user happens to be (and some commands will
> "chdir()" into the .git directory, while others will not).
Is alternates unthinkable with URLs (e.g. remote alternates) i.e. broken
by design or thinkable but not there yet ?
Greetings,
Christian
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