From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:12:42 GMT
Subject: 'git clone' doesn't use alternates automatically?
Message-ID: <885649360901301412jd5c6b0dne1eff1ff00dd043e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have a central, shared Git repository on an NFS drive at path
$central.  I have added "$central/objects" to
$central/objects/info/alternates.  I see that when I clone this
repository with Git 1.6.1, the alternates file is automatically copied
to the clone, but so are all the pack files and loose objects.  If I
then cd to the clone and run 'git gc', it removes the redundant local
objects.

I thought I tested this setup a few months back, and 'git clone'
automatically used the alternates file to avoid copying the redundant
objects into the clone.  Has this behavior changed, or is my memory
bad?

James