Re: [PATCH] Alternate object pool mechanism updates.

Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:09:13AM CEST, I got a letter
where Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] 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 <redacted>

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. :-)

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