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J=F6rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:

> Well, .git/objects for your kernel still consumes 121M.  It's not
> gigabytes but I still wouldn't want too many copies of that lying
> around.

That is what "git clone -l -s" is for. =20

The alternates pointer mechanism used with the above largely
makes GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY unnecessary for end users these days.
It is a fine mechanism as an implementation detail of the
lowlevel and Porcelains, and that is the reason the
documentation still mentions the environment.