GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

From: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Date: Apr 18, 2006, 13:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20060418133847.GC4720@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

Hi!

I recently noticed GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY in the git manpage and wanted to play with it. But it looks as if it doesn't work, the documentation is wrong/insufficient or I can't properly read the documentation. So let me figure out, which one it is.

$ set | grep GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/home/joern/.git

$ ls -l /home/joern/.git total 288 drwxrwxr-x 2 joern joern 4096 Apr 16 01:22 0f [...]

$ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git foo [ stored >200M of data under foo/.git/objects ]

The above looks as if new objects are not stored under /home/joern/.git, as specified by GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY. The manpage tells me:

       GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
              If  the  object storage directory is specified via this environ-
              ment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath -
              otherwise the default $GIT_DIR/objects directory is used.

And I would interpret this as "store all new objects under /home/joern/.git". So far, things don't seem to imply me being too stupid. What went wrong?

Jörn

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