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Re: local git push bug wrt GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 6, 2006, 22:36 UTC
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Matt Draisey <matt@draisey.ca> writes:
> Using git-send-pack to push to a local repository will propagate the
> environment variable GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to git-receive-pack.
> git-receive-pack correctly ignores GIT_DIR (as opposed to what the
> documentation says) but, unfortunately, honours GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY.
Thanks for noticing.

True; receive-pack does not "ignore", but is explicitly told to use the other repository by invoking send-pack. 

> It's not clear to me whether the correct behaviour is for git-send-pack
> to clean up its environment before it execs or for git-receive-pack to
> ignore most GIT variables.

Probably GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY should not be propagated; GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES neither.

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  1. Matt DraiseyDec 30, 2005
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