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git clone ignores GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES

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BRBrian Ristuccia <brian@ristuccia.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2009, 17:58 UTC
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<20090730175833.GV12813@osiris.978.org>

When running git clone, it seems that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is not considered. Even though most of the needed objects are in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES, I still wind up with a ton of traffic over the network and a huge .git/objects hierarchy.

Running "git gc" later pares down the .git/objects to a more reasonable size, so it seems the problem is limited to git clone. Using "git clone --reference" also seems to do the right thing.

Is this behavior intentional for some good reason I've overlooked, or have I stumbled on a bug?

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