From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:37:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1002261837g794e8df2yc92261d46f3235bd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100227T004822-959@post.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steve Folly <steve@spfweb.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a local mirror of a remote repository (to save time
> cloning over a slow network).  But before I created the
> local mirror I already cloned the remote repo directly.
>
> Is it possible to retrospectively add an alternates spec
> to this local repository (the equivalent of doing what
> --reference does during the clone)?

yes, just make sure the objects/info/alternates file points to the
location of that cloned repo's object directory; for example:

  $ echo /path/to/cloned/repo/.git/objects > .git/objects/info/alternates

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan