On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:29:05AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > We have a string with ".../objects" pointing to the > > alternate object store, and overwrite bits of it to look at > > other paths in the (potential) git repository holding it. > > This works because the only path we care about is "refs", > > which is shorter than "objects". > > Yup, this was probably copied from a lazy original I wrote ;-) > Thanks for cleaning up. To be fair, the original predates all of the helper functions I used here. :) -Peff