On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:48 -0400, Ben Walton wrote: > +. You could be using the `objects/info/alternates` or > +`$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanisms to 'borrow' > objects from other object stores. A repository with this kind > of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for > -use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as > -`objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores > -it borrows from. > +use with dumb transports but is otherwise OK as long as > +`objects/info/alternates` points to object stores containing the > +missing objects. Umm, I'm not prepared to call this an improvement. The objects aren't _missing_, they just aren't present in the most immediate object store. I'm a minimalist when it comes to this sort of edit and would have just excised the word "right" from the awkward segment. -- -Drew Northup ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html