Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 ;)). It does sound strange. "git -C $there multi-pack-index write" would have felt more natural.
