From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:20:58 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
Message-ID: <7vfykag2yd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060418175853.GA25688@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:

> Well, .git/objects for your kernel still consumes 121M.  It's not
> gigabytes but I still wouldn't want too many copies of that lying
> around.

That is what "git clone -l -s" is for.  

The alternates pointer mechanism used with the above largely
makes GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY unnecessary for end users these days.
It is a fine mechanism as an implementation detail of the
lowlevel and Porcelains, and that is the reason the
documentation still mentions the environment.