[PATCH] Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.

An entry in the alternates file can name a directory relative to
the object store it describes.  A typical linux-2.6 maintainer
repository would have "../../../torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects" there,
because the subsystem maintainer object store would live in

    /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$system.git/objects/

and the object store of Linus tree is in

    /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects/

This unfortunately is different from GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
which is relative to the cwd of the running process, but there is no
way to make it consistent with the behaviour of the environment
variable.  The process typically is run in $system.git/ directory for
a naked repository, or one level up for a repository with a working
tree, so we just define it to be relative to the objects/ directory
to be different from either ;-).

Later, the dumb transport could be updated to read from info/alternates
and make requests for the repository the repository borrows from.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

sha1_file.c

@@ -240,10 +240,12 @@ static struct alternate_object_database **alt_odb_tail;
  * SHA1, an extra slash for the first level indirection, and the
  * terminating NUL.
  */
-static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, const char *ep, int sep)
+static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, const char *ep, int sep,
+				 const char *relative_base)
 {
 	const char *cp, *last;
 	struct alternate_object_database *ent;
+	int base_len = -1;
 
 	last = alt;
 	while (last < ep) {
@@ -261,12 +263,25 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(const char *alt, const char *ep, int sep)
 			int pfxlen = cp - last;
 			int entlen = pfxlen + 43;
 
+			if (*last != '/' && relative_base) {
+				/* Relative alt-odb */
+				if (base_len < 0)
+					base_len = strlen(relative_base) + 1;
+				entlen += base_len;
+				pfxlen += base_len;
+			}
 			ent = xmalloc(sizeof(*ent) + entlen);
 			*alt_odb_tail = ent;
 			alt_odb_tail = &(ent->next);
 			ent->next = NULL;
-
-			memcpy(ent->base, last, pfxlen);
+			if (*last != '/' && relative_base) {
+				memcpy(ent->base, relative_base, base_len - 1);
+				ent->base[base_len - 1] = '/';
+				memcpy(ent->base + base_len,
+				       last, cp - last);
+			}
+			else
+				memcpy(ent->base, last, pfxlen);
 			ent->name = ent->base + pfxlen + 1;
 			ent->base[pfxlen] = ent->base[pfxlen + 3] = '/';
 			ent->base[entlen-1] = 0;
@@ -288,12 +303,12 @@ void prepare_alt_odb(void)
 	alt = getenv(ALTERNATE_DB_ENVIRONMENT);
 	if (!alt) alt = "";
 
-	sprintf(path, "%s/info/alternates", get_object_directory());
 	if (alt_odb_tail)
 		return;
 	alt_odb_tail = &alt_odb_list;
-	link_alt_odb_entries(alt, alt + strlen(alt), ':');
+	link_alt_odb_entries(alt, alt + strlen(alt), ':', NULL);
 
+	sprintf(path, "%s/info/alternates", get_object_directory());
 	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		return;
@@ -306,7 +321,8 @@ void prepare_alt_odb(void)
 	if (map == MAP_FAILED)
 		return;
 
-	link_alt_odb_entries(map, map + st.st_size, '\n');
+	link_alt_odb_entries(map, map + st.st_size, '\n',
+			     get_object_directory());
 	munmap(map, st.st_size);
 }