Hi, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 12:58:52PM -0500, Liam Decker wrote: >> The solution that I implemented was to check the objects directory for the >> object, and if it was not there, to look for a quarantine directory and try >> there. However, that feels fairly inefficient. > > That's more or less what Git will do under the hood (though in the > opposite order). > >> For the curious, the library and solution I attempted are both here [5] > > Just skimming, but it sounds like go-git does not support the > GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY environment variable. To be clear: we don't guarantee that the quarantine directory in the future will be where it is today. So as Peff hinted, supporting GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY in go-git is likely to be the best way forward for your tool. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan
