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Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 11, 2005, 19:56 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111251150.3242@g5.osdl.org>
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<20050911194630.GB22951@mars.ravnborg.org>
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I had to specify both GIT_DIR and GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to make
> git-prune-packed behave as expected. I assume this is normal when I
> rename the .git directory like in this case.

You should only need to specify GIT_DIR - it should figure out that the object directory follows GIT_DIR on its own.

Also, I forget what version of git is installed on kernel.org. The "alternates" support has been around for a while, and looking at the date of "/usr/bin/git" it _seems_ recent (Sep 7), but I haven't seen any announcement of updating since the last one (which was git-0.99.4, which is too old).

You can try removing all the packs in your .git/objects/packs directory. Everything _should_ still work fine.

Famous last words.
		Linus
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Message 3 of 18 in “Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?”
  1. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  2. Sam RavnborgSep 11, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  4. Roland DreierSep 11, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsSep 11, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  8. Dmitry TorokhovSep 12, 2005
  9. Ryan AndersonSep 12, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  11. Define relative .git/objects/info/alternates semantics.Junio C Hamano, Sep 13, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 13, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2005
  14. Daniel BarkalowSep 13, 2005
  15. H. Peter AnvinSep 12, 2005
  16. Tony LuckSep 12, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2005

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