Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > I wonder if there is yet another missing case in the enumeration of > the previous patch: > Some commands are able to operate on GIT_OBJECT_DIR instead > of GIT_DIR (git repack?), which may not even explore the full git directory, > and so doesn't know about the hash value.
... because GIT_DIR/config is not known? "repack" is not one of them, though---it needs to at least use refs as the starting point so a standalone OBJECT_DIR is insufficient.
