On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:37:36PM +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > > Note that the tarball doesn't have all the necessary objects. Its > > .git/objects/info/alternates points to another full clone of > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good. > > Ah good to know, I thought this only happens if you clone with > --reference and not otherwise. If you do a local-filesystem clone of a repository with alternates, the clone will have the same alternates. So I'm guessing you may have done such a clone of your --reference repository as part of preparing the tarball. -Peff