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Subject: Re: git clone downloads objects that are in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:34:48 -0800
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To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Doing a fresh git clone git://some.git.url/ foo seems to download the 
>> entire remote repository even if all the objects are already stored in 
>> GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY=/home/bcrl/.git/object .  Is this a known bug?  
>> At 100MB for a kernel, this takes a *long* time.
>
> I believe it is a known missing feature.  :-) git-clone doesn't
> prep HEAD to have some sort of starting point so the pull it uses
> to download everything literally downloads everything as nothing
> is in common.

You would first 'clone -l -s' from your local repository and
then clone into that from whatever remote, perhaps.