From 93ba9d330d231bf44b98bcdf0d318062c7ff207e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:17:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.4.4-gef06

---
 repository-layout.html | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 repository-layout.txt  | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/repository-layout.html b/repository-layout.html
index b3bff63be..6dda03f7d 100644
--- a/repository-layout.html
+++ b/repository-layout.html
@@ -352,9 +352,25 @@ objects/info/alternates
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
-        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 <em>objects/info/http-alternates</em>.
+</p>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+objects/info/http-alternates
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<p>
+        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.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
@@ -527,7 +543,7 @@ logs/refs/tags/<tt>name</tt>
 </div>
 <div id="footer">
 <div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 18-Nov-2006 22:17:50 UTC
+Last updated 20-Nov-2006 03:17:36 UTC
 </div>
 </div>
 </body>
diff --git a/repository-layout.txt b/repository-layout.txt
index 6d8c58ed2..e20fb7e74 100644
--- a/repository-layout.txt
+++ b/repository-layout.txt
@@ -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
-- 
2.26.2