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Documentation: Correct alternates documentation, document http-alternates

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For one, the documentation invalidly claimed that the paths have to be
absolute when that's not the case and in fact there is a very valid reason
not to use absolute paths (documented the reason as well).

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Petr Baudis 2006-11-19 00:30:15 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/repository-layout.txt
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@ -52,9 +52,20 @@ objects/info/packs::
by default.
objects/info/alternates::
This file records absolute filesystem paths of alternate
object stores that this object store borrows objects
from, one pathname per line.
This file records paths to alternate object stores that
this object store borrows objects from, one pathname per
line. Note that not only native Git tools use it locally,
but the HTTP fetcher also tries to use it remotely; this
will usually work if you have relative paths (relative
to the object database, not to the repository!) in your
alternates file, but it will not work if you use absolute
paths unless the absolute path in filesystem and web URL
is the same. See also 'objects/info/http-alternates'.
objects/info/http-alternates::
This file records URLs to alternate object stores that
this object store borrows objects from, to be used when
the repository is fetched over HTTP.
refs::
References are stored in subdirectories of this