From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:46:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.12
Message-ID: <20050710134624.B3279@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7v4qb3uo63.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:15:48AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> As a workaround until Cogito gets updated, would it help to have
> the environment variable GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
> pointing at the untouched copy of Linus tree's .git/objects/
> directory?  All your other trees would find the objects in your
> copied-Linus tree (including packed one) available to them
> already and hopefully pull breakage does not even have to touch
> those objects.

That seems to work, thanks.  I think this is a good idea anyway -
it seems to mean that each working tree ends up with an empty set of
.git/objects/* directories.  When new work is done in a tree, the
corresponding objects then appear, and only these objects need
transferring upstream.

It means that rsync --delete-after can (in theory) be used when
making changes available to the upstream maintainer.

-- 
Russell King