On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 07:05:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 12:06 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > I'm not entirely convinced that writing a midx when not "inside" a repo > > is something that we want to support. But if we do, then... > > Seemed like that was the point of --object-dir? Stolee (cc'd) would know more as the original author, but as I recall the point of `--object-dir` was to be able to write a midx in directories which were acting as Git repositories, but didn't contain a `.git` directory. It's kind of a strange use-case, but I recall that it was important at the time. Maybe he could shed more light on why. (Either way, we're stuck with it ;)). Thanks, Taylor
