Re: GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jörn Engel wrote:

$ 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