Hi, On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steve Folly <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a local mirror of a remote repository (to save time > cloning over a slow network). But before I created the > local mirror I already cloned the remote repo directly. > > Is it possible to retrospectively add an alternates spec > to this local repository (the equivalent of doing what > --reference does during the clone)? yes, just make sure the objects/info/alternates file points to the location of that cloned repo's object directory; for example: $ echo /path/to/cloned/repo/.git/objects > .git/objects/info/alternates -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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