From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: Steve Folly <steve@spfweb.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:37:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1002261837g794e8df2yc92261d46f3235bd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100227T004822-959@post.gmane.org>
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steve Folly <steve@spfweb.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a local mirror of a remote repository (to save time
> cloning over a slow network). But before I created the
> local mirror I already cloned the remote repo directly.
>
> Is it possible to retrospectively add an alternates spec
> to this local repository (the equivalent of doing what
> --reference does during the clone)?
yes, just make sure the objects/info/alternates file points to the
location of that cloned repo's object directory; for example:
$ echo /path/to/cloned/repo/.git/objects > .git/objects/info/alternates
--
Cheers,
Ray Chuan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 23:54 Retrospectively add alternates to a repository? Steve Folly
2010-02-27 2:37 ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2010-02-27 8:34 ` Jeff King
2010-02-27 11:43 ` Steve Folly
2010-02-27 12:30 ` Jeff King
2010-05-16 13:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2010-05-22 5:38 ` Jeff King
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