relocating the .git folder

 

I don't think this is possible without a bit of hacking but just throwing it out there.

In Git is it possible to relocate the bulk of the .git folder (/objects i assume) to another location. I am having a problem without my current hard drive filling up with git and i want to be able to move it to a separate hard drive to free up space.

There are three possibilities I can think of:

  • The GIT_DIR environment variable tells Git where to look for the repository. The default is .git , obviously, but you can also set it to /some/where/else , if you want.
  • The GIT_OBJECT_DIR environment variable does the same, but just for the .git/objects subdirectory, not the whole repository.
  • You can use the file .git/objects/info/alternates or the environment variable $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES to "borrow" objects from another repository.

    • See the git-repositorylayout(5) manual page for details.

    Git has a command line option called --git-dir . Whenever you run git, use the --git-dir option. 

     git --git-dir=a_different_git_directory status

    Perhaps you could put that in a batch file or something to make your life easier.

    Usually the .git directory isn't that big. When is the last time you did a garbage collection? 

    git gc

    This cleans up unreferenced objects in the git store.

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