From: Brian Ristuccia Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:58:33 GMT Subject: git clone ignores GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES Message-ID: <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? -- Brian Ristuccia brian@ristuccia.com