Re: share object storage for multiple clones of different repositories

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 5, 2011, 02:26 UTC
Message-ID: <7vobwr9uf0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <j91rcq$1uo$1@dough.gmane.org>

Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> writes:

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> SHARED_STORAGE=$HOME/shared_storage
> mkdir $SHARED_STORAGE
>
> git clone remotehost1:repo1
> cd repo1
> rsync -av .git/objects $SHARED_REPO

Up to this part it is probably OK. Repeat that for all your local repositories to collect all objects in $HOME/shared_storage.

After doing that, do this in all of your local repositories:

	rm -rf .git/objects
        mkdir -p .git/objects/info
        echo $HOME/shared/storage >.git/objects/info/alternates

The reason why nobody should follow your original recipe is because any "git gc"/"git repack" in any of your local repositories would break others with that approach.