On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 01:09:22PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote: > 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 ;)). And the point was that those directories would also be alternates of the current repo (and that there is a current repo). That's one of the things that your midx-bitmap series tightens. -Peff
