From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:46:30 GMT
Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?
Message-ID: <20050911194630.GB22951@mars.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111157360.3242@g5.osdl.org>

> > 
> > 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