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From: "Frans Klaver" <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: share object storage for multiple clones of different
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Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:37:24 +0100
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On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:11 +0100, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>  
wrote:

> Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> 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