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Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date
Sep 11, 2005, 19:46 UTC
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<20050911194630.GB22951@mars.ravnborg.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111157360.3242@g5.osdl.org>
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> > 
> > Can you post a small description how to utilize this method?
> 
> Just do
> 
> 	echo /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/objects > objects/info/alternates
> 
> in your tree, and that will tell git that your tree can use my object 
> directory as an "alternate" source of objects. At that point, you can 
> remove all objects that I have.
OK - what I did:

cd /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam rm -rf kbuild.git git clone /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git kbuild.git rename to .git to kbuild.git

I had to specify both GIT_DIR and GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to make git-prune-packed behave as expected. I assume this is normal when I rename the .git directory like in this case.

I will se if any pullers complins (mostly/only Andrew I think).
	Sam
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Message 2 of 18 in “Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?”
  1. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  2. Sam RavnborgSep 11, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  4. Roland DreierSep 11, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  8. Dmitry TorokhovSep 12, 2005
  9. Ryan AndersonSep 12, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  11. Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.Junio C Hamano, Sep 13, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 13, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  14. Daniel BarkalowSep 13, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinSep 12, 2005
  16. Tony LuckSep 12, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005

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