>> git clone --reference ~otheruser/nongnu > > This doesn't appear to be a proper command, because it's missing actual > repository to clone, only the repository to use as reference. This is the > proper usage of --reference: > > git clone --reference ~/some/repo https://some/remote/repo.git Indeed, thanks: git clone --reference ~otheruser/nongnu https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/nongnu.git > Without knowing exactly what you did, it's hard to tell what went wrong. You > can try running "find nongnu" to see if what you think is your own checkout is > actually a symlink or some combination thereof. Not sure what you mean by that. In any case, I just reproduced the problem: % git clone --reference ~otheruser/nongnu https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/nongnu.git Cloning into 'nongnu'... Fetching objects: 36974, done. % cd nongnu % git gc Enumerating objects: 36974, done. Nothing new to pack. warning: unable to unlink '/home/otheruser/nongnu/.git/objects/pack/pack-0d85e74ac2f7e51ce26f281e64eb738e8182fa95.idx': Permission denied warning: unable to unlink '/home/otheruser/nongnu/.git/objects/pack/pack-5fe14feff49ccdee5469af9dc94f6784e8464a6b.idx': Permission denied % ls -l /home/otheruser/nongnu/.git/objects/pack/pack-0d85e74ac2f7e51ce26f281e64eb738e8182fa95.idx -rw-r--r-- 1 otheruser otheruser 975612 Dec 11 16:08 /home/otheruser/nongnu/.git/objects/pack/pack-0d85e74ac2f7e51ce26f281e64eb738e8182fa95.idx % ls -ld /home/otheruser/nongnu/.git/objects/pack drwxr-xr-x 2 otheruser otheruser 4096 Dec 27 17:57 /home/otheruser/nongnu/.git/objects/pack/ % -- Stefan
