Re: share object storage for multiple clones of different repositories

On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:11 +0100, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]  
wrote:

Gelonida N [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

SHARED_STORAGE=$HOME/shared_storage
mkdir $SHARED_STORAGE

git clone remotehost1:repo1
cd repo1
rsync -av .git/objects $SHARED_REPO

Up to this part it is probably OK.  Repeat that for all your local
repositories to collect all objects in $HOME/shared_storage.

After doing that, do this in all of your local repositories:

	rm -rf .git/objects
        mkdir -p .git/objects/info
        echo $HOME/shared/storage >.git/objects/info/alternates

The reason why nobody should follow your original recipe is because any
"git gc"/"git repack" in any of your local repositories would break  
others
with that approach.

Alternatively there's the git-new-workdir script in contrib/workdir in  
git.git. Haven't tested it, but it seems like it does what you want.

Frans