Often I want to clone a remote repository but would like to use an existing local source tree as 'alternates'. One way of doing this is to clone the local tree with 'git-clone -l -s', find the latest common commit shared with the remote tree to be fetched, revert to that with 'git-reset --head $last' and then pulling from the remote. Is that _really_ the best way of doing it though? It would be better if we just had a '--local-alternates=/foo' option to git-clone when cloning a remote repository. -- dwmw2 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html