From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:04:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone ignores GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
Message-ID: <7vab2maqeo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090730175833.GV12813@osiris.978.org>

Brian Ristuccia <brian@ristuccia.com> writes:

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

Most likely not a bug.

When you talk about "clone", you need to realize that there actually are
two repositories (and two object databases) involved: cloned source and
destination.

Which repository should GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES affect?

If you are making a clone from a remote over the network, and if you
already have another local repository of a related project that has
necessary objects, you may want to look at

    "git clone --reference"