On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:02:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
The "objects/info/alternates" thing is an extension, which allows you to
have a partial object store, and point to the "rest of it", and still have
all the tools understand it and be able to parse the totality of it. So it
doesn't break or change old formats, it only allows a new one.
Ah, ok. I thought it was a new requirement, and I had visions of
similar complaints about my repositories. Thanks for explaining
the situation.
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Russell King