Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Yeah, "points at the object stores it borrows objects from" sounds readable and technically correct. -- 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