Re: git clone downloads objects that are in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mar 6, 2006, 03:31 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP05F90E7F1807F05A274507AEE90@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <20060306025702.GH25790@spearce.org>

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:57:02 -0500 Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> It might be nicer if the user could place a list of locally (here
> locally being possibly remote but closer network-wise) available
> repositories which should be considered as sources for faster
> cloning.  When cloning a remote repository git-clone would try to
> examine each of the designated repositories to see if any of them
> have commits in common with the remote; if so clone off that and
> then pull from the remote, but designating the remote as `origin'.

It is already easy to start from a similar repo (eg. locally cloned) if you wish to conserve bandwidth.

However, it might be nice to have a command that allows you to change origin information for a repo without needing to know git internals; maybe something like:

$ git set-origin <URL>

Or maybe better:

$ git set-remote --pull master:origin origin <URL>

Sean