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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] for_each_alternate_ref: use strbuf for path allocation
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.