I am not sure if there was any improvement since then, but Junio wrote about alternates 2 years ago http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2012/08/bringing-bit-more-sanity-to-alternates.html -- 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