Michael K. Edwards wrote: > When setting up a working area for kernel integration for a new > embedded target, I generally do a "git clone --reference" so that the > new area has its own repository (and its own branch structure) but > most of the blobs come from a local reference copy. But now that I'm > integrating bits from several non-trivially divergent trees (mtd-2.6, > netdev-2.6, linux-2.6.16.y, etc.), it would be nice to avoid > re-downloading blobs for these additional remote branches, which are > also available in the local reference copy. Is it feasible to > implement "git fetch --reference" for this purpose? Or is there a > better way to manage this sort of integration effort? All (I think) that --reference does is to create alternates file. You can simply add another alternate before fetch. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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