On Tue, 18 April 2006 08:25:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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/ Is it possible for non-owners of a kernel.org account to do this? > 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). Well, .git/objects for your kernel still consumes 121M. It's not gigabytes but I still wouldn't want too many copies of that lying around. Right now, I already feel slightly motivated to move the whole content-addressable idea into the kernel. It has disadvantages, but the effect on disk- and pagecache-footprint for people like me would come in handy. Jörn -- The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there. -- Gordon Bell, DEC labratories - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html