From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:42:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Clone with local alternates?
Message-ID: <m1r73toq9h.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <1145435957.13200.39.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:56 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>>   git clone --reference=/foo git://remote/foo
>
> That's nice. What would be even _nicer_ is if I could enforce its usage
> on the server. I keep a clean copy of Linus' kernel tree on the machine
> with the git dæmon, so I'd like to make it refuse to send any objects
> which are in that tree and which people should already have fetched from
> elsewhere anyway.

Given how large the linux kernel archive is I can see the desire.

At git startup there is an exchange of common commits. to
find the best place to build the pack from so what you want
is possible.  I haven't a clue how you would describe it
though in the face of multiple branches, coming off the
trunk at different times.

Eric