Re: Clone with local alternates?

David Woodhouse [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:56 -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:

quoted

  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