Hi list, I'd like to shorten the time needed by our continuous integration (CI) tool to clone the source repositories. Currently the full clone takes about 10 minutes (even from local server). Our main repository has several submodules so the CI tool runs "git submodule update --init". My idea was to use GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES to cache objects from several submodule repositories locally. However, this does not work because GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is considered local to the super-project and is not propagated to the "git clone" for submodules (git-submodule.sh calls clear_local_git_env).
My question is why is GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES considered local to the repository? If I could modify the command-line I would use the "git submodule update" with the --reference option, which is propagated to clones of all submodules. Letting GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES propagate to the submodules should have the same effect as --reference option. So why it is not propagated? Thanks, -Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
