Hi, On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Matt McCutchen wrote: > Maybe this is common knowledge, but I thought I should mention it in > case it isn't. I had a git repository in a directory A and I wanted > to check out a branch of the repository to a different directory B. > So I created B/.git and filled it with symlinks pointing to the files > in A/.git, except for index and HEAD because those need to be > different for each checkout; A better method is to use a local clone: git-clone --local --shared A B Such a clone will be very fast, and cheap, because it sets up links (not just symbolic links, but links that git understands). Hth, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: 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