From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: share object storage for multiple clones of different repositories Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:26:11 -0700 Message-ID: <7vobwr9uf0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Gelonida N X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 05 03:26:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMVxb-0007YN-Nl for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752916Ab1KEC0O (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:26:14 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:47663 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752879Ab1KEC0O (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:26:14 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4915A67CA; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:26:13 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=hBgCIO0T3/6V/CG6jS+phog/ppk=; b=ZWnPvf 2KBvXMkgYZCArHUBuhD5gUqvsMm5OUnF5JsxDpvR/Vi2Y2Nkt/ovGkeA1eJh6jTz x570EAKvGfLLNb9DRXKn5zQCLGzW2LiwwfoXz1SdJ9iduscUbB4sRDMNylPXPdM/ L5icFST394LvF+4xvUcW9vjpVbtwk5BIhCTes= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=hPHn4aH8MMrjptH/aq+u8toQ5zlV4o5u KanFjLRjlYp0ZTTTwSLxTSakwPA+rSbniiuOj3aTxEwP6q0uXQGSWCnIAeZxBV+K aDk+tLCS3W4BLwLcDMcZoEZwfAY3mCXYiaGXZgFTO7iAaR79FAyxNwi903k/xakS 9S+YPrvye6o= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCAC67C9; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE7E167C8; Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:26:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Gelonida N.'s message of "Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:10:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 87A62A54-0755-11E1-A2F9-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Gelonida N 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.