Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:09:13AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > It was a mistake to use GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES > environment variable to specify what alternate object pools to > look for missing objects when working with an object database. > It is not a property of the process running the git commands, > but a property of the object database that is partial and needs > other object pools to complete the set of objects it lacks. > > This patch allows you to have $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/alt > file whose contents is in exactly the same format as the > environment variable, to let an object database name alternate > object pools it depends on. > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What about calling it rather info/alternates (or info/alternate)? It looks better, sounds better, is more namespace-ecological tab-completes fine and you don't type it that often anyway. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html