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A file with directories of other git object databases to use when reading objects.
This inherently makes alternates read-only.
An alternate file in <git-dir>/info/alternates
can look as follows:
# a comment, empty lines are also allowed
# relative paths resolve relative to the parent git repository
../path/relative/to/repo/.git
/absolute/path/to/repo/.git
"/a/ansi-c-quoted/path/with/tabs\t/.git"
# each .git directory should indeed be a directory, and not a file
Based on the canonical implementation.
Modules§
Enums§
- Returned by
resolve()
Functions§
- Given an
objects_directory
, try to resolve alternate object directories possibly located in the./info/alternates
file into canonical paths and resolve relative paths with the help of thecurrent_dir
. If no alternate object database was resolved, the resultingVec
is empty (it is not an error if there are no alternates). It is an error once a repository is seen again as it would lead to a cycle.