Re: git clone downloads objects that are in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 6, 2006, 02:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfylwcncn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060306014253.GD25790@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Doing a fresh git clone git://some.git.url/ foo seems to download the 
>> entire remote repository even if all the objects are already stored in 
>> GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/home/bcrl/.git/object .  Is this a known bug?  
>> At 100MB for a kernel, this takes a *long* time.
>
> I believe it is a known missing feature.  :-) git-clone doesn't
> prep HEAD to have some sort of starting point so the pull it uses
> to download everything literally downloads everything as nothing
> is in common.

You would first 'clone -l -s' from your local repository and then clone into that from whatever remote, perhaps.