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