From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:36:58 GMT
Subject: Re: local git push bug wrt GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
Message-ID: <7vbqypt245.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1135922900.2103.37.camel@della.draisey.ca>

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.