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Subject: Re: git clone does not work with GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY set
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:33:25 -0800
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Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> writes:

> And another bug (linux-2.6.git was created with a clone of git://.../ 
> while GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY was set):
>
> $ git clone linux-2.6.git bootcache.git
> fatal: '/home/bcrl/linux-2.6.git/.git': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: unexpected EOF
> clone-pack from '/home/bcrl/linux-2.6.git/.git' failed.
> $ 

Please try it without GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY and see it works
correctly (I think it should).  If that is the case, maybe
git-clone should explicitly unset GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY.