Re: GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 18, 2006, 15:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604180822470.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060418133847.GC4720@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:

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> $ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git foo
> [ stored >200M of data under foo/.git/objects ]
> 
> The above looks as if new objects are not stored under
> /home/joern/.git, as specified by GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY.

The "rsync" protocol really doesn't honor git rules. It's basically just a big recursive copy, and it will copy things from the place they were before.

I suspect that if you had used a real git-aware protocol instead, you'd have been fine, ie

	git clone git://git.kernel.org/... foo/

would probably work. (I say "probably", because very few people likely use GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, and it makes a lot less sense with pack-files than it did originally, so it's not getting any testing).

		Linus