Subject: Re: share object storage for multiple clones of different repositories

From: Gelonida N <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:06:26 +0100

Thanks for both of your replies,

I'll probably mix both approaches and try out how it works.
I didn't know about git.git
What is the best url for an intrudoction into git.git?

On 11/05/2011 08:37 AM, Frans Klaver wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:11 +0100, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Gelonida N <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> SHARED_STORAGE=$HOME/shared_storage
>>> mkdir $SHARED_STORAGE
>>>
>>> git clone remotehost1:repo1
>>> cd repo1
>>> rsync -av .git/objects $SHARED_REPO
>>
>> Up to this part it is probably OK.  Repeat that for all your local
>> repositories to collect all objects in $HOME/shared_storage.
>>
>> After doing that, do this in all of your local repositories:
>>
>>     rm -rf .git/objects
>>         mkdir -p .git/objects/info
>>         echo $HOME/shared/storage >.git/objects/info/alternates
>>
>> The reason why nobody should follow your original recipe is because any
>> "git gc"/"git repack" in any of your local repositories would break
>> others
>> with that approach.
> 
> 
> Alternatively there's the git-new-workdir script in contrib/workdir in
> git.git. Haven't tested it, but it seems like it does what you want.
> 
> Frans