Re: [PATCH] Add test for cloning with "--reference" repo being a subset of source repo

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > I think we should be able to avoid setting git_dir to anything other than 
> > the repo we're creating, which would avoid this problem for the present, 
> > although, as you say, it would be good to be able to switch around as 
> > instructed for libification purposes eventually.
> 
> Okay, stuff pushed out to not use git_dir to access the reference repo, 
> and an additional test that requires that we actually note that we have 
> the refs in the reference repository (because otherwise we could pass all 
> the tests by just making --reference useless, but that's obviously no 
> good).