From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Retrospectively add alternates to a repository?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:37:25 +0800
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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). =A0But 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/alternat=
es

--=20
Cheers,
Ray Chuan