Hi All, I've been using git clone --reference and git submodule update --reference to reduce the amount of data transferred when I cloned a repository that I already had an older copy of (that for one reason or another I didn't want to touch or clone directly). Now I'm finding that what I really want to do is change around what is referencing what. I currently have the following. projecta.git base.git # references project a projectb.git # referenced base (which, now that I think about it, was probably the wrong thing to do) Ideally I'd want to end up with base.git # has all objects projecta.git # uses base as a reference projectb.git # uses base as a reference also I would like to have base somehow find the objects it doesn't have in its object store and either download them or just copy them from the object store of projecta. Then I can manually point projecta at base and repack (as discussed in this thread [1]) to free up some space. projectb should be fine as is because it already references base. Is there any way to actually do this? A little googling found hints on adding alternates after the fact but I'm actually interested in going the other direction. From reading [2] I think 'rm .git/objects/info/alternates && git repack -a' might do the trick but I'm not sure. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/141161/focus=141199 [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2248228/how-to-detach-alternates-after-git-clone-reference -- 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