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Re: Clone with local alternates?

From
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date
Apr 19, 2006, 08:39 UTC
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<1145435957.13200.39.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
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<20060418235658.GB8915@spearce.org>
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:56 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>   git clone --reference=/foo git://remote/foo

That's nice. What would be even _nicer_ is if I could enforce its usage on the server. I keep a clean copy of Linus' kernel tree on the machine with the git dæmon, so I'd like to make it refuse to send any objects which are in that tree and which people should already have fetched from elsewhere anyway.

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dwmw2
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Message 5 of 7 in “Clone with local alternates?”
  1. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceApr 18, 2006
  3. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2006
  4. Document git-clone --referenceShawn Pearce, Apr 19, 2006
  5. David WoodhouseApr 19, 2006
  6. Eric W. BiedermanApr 19, 2006
  7. Eric W. BiedermanApr 19, 2006

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