From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:33:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone does not work with GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY set
Message-ID: <7vmzg4cq6y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060306012115.GG20768@kvack.org>

Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> writes:

> And another bug (linux-2.6.git was created with a clone of git://.../ 
> while GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY was set):
>
> $ git clone linux-2.6.git bootcache.git
> fatal: '/home/bcrl/linux-2.6.git/.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: unexpected EOF
> clone-pack from '/home/bcrl/linux-2.6.git/.git' failed.
> $ 

Please try it without GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY and see it works
correctly (I think it should).  If that is the case, maybe
git-clone should explicitly unset GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY.