>>> 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: FWIW, I just tried it with git clone --shared ~otheruser/nongnu and got the same result. I also tried with another repository, still with the same result (tho different pack.idx names, of course). Stefan
