local git push bug wrt GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

Matt Draisey· Dec 30, 2005, 06:08 UTC · lore

Using git-send-pack to push to a local repository will propagate the environment variable GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to git-receive-pack. git-receive-pack correctly ignores GIT_DIR (as opposed to what the documentation says) but, unfortunately, honours GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY.

It's not clear to me whether the correct behaviour is for git-send-pack to clean up its environment before it execs or for git-receive-pack to ignore most GIT variables.

Interposing a short script with env -i or env -uGIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY is the easiest workaround.

Junio C Hamano· Jan 6, 2006, 22:36 UTC · re: Matt Draisey · lore

Re: local git push bug wrt GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

Matt Draisey <matt@draisey.ca> writes:

> Using git-send-pack to push to a local repository will propagate the
> environment variable GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to git-receive-pack.
> git-receive-pack correctly ignores GIT_DIR (as opposed to what the
> documentation says) but, unfortunately, honours GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY.

Thanks for noticing.

True; receive-pack does not "ignore", but is explicitly told to use the other repository by invoking send-pack.

> It's not clear to me whether the correct behaviour is for git-send-pack
> to clean up its environment before it execs or for git-receive-pack to
> ignore most GIT variables.

Probably GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY should not be propagated; GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES neither.