Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cogito-0.12

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:15:48AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

As a workaround until Cogito gets updated, would it help to have
the environment variable GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
pointing at the untouched copy of Linus tree's .git/objects/
directory?  All your other trees would find the objects in your
copied-Linus tree (including packed one) available to them
already and hopefully pull breakage does not even have to touch
those objects.

That seems to work, thanks.  I think this is a good idea anyway -
it seems to mean that each working tree ends up with an empty set of
.git/objects/* directories.  When new work is done in a tree, the
corresponding objects then appear, and only these objects need
transferring upstream.

It means that rsync --delete-after can (in theory) be used when
making changes available to the upstream maintainer.

-- 
Russell King