Thanks for both of your replies, I'll probably mix both approaches and try out how it works. I didn't know about git.git What is the best url for an intrudoction into git.git? On 11/05/2011 08:37 AM, Frans Klaver wrote: > On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:26:11 +0100, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Gelonida N <gelonida@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> SHARED_STORAGE=$HOME/shared_storage >>> mkdir $SHARED_STORAGE >>> >>> git clone remotehost1:repo1 >>> cd repo1 >>> rsync -av .git/objects $SHARED_REPO >> >> Up to this part it is probably OK. Repeat that for all your local >> repositories to collect all objects in $HOME/shared_storage. >> >> After doing that, do this in all of your local repositories: >> >> rm -rf .git/objects >> mkdir -p .git/objects/info >> echo $HOME/shared/storage >.git/objects/info/alternates >> >> The reason why nobody should follow your original recipe is because any >> "git gc"/"git repack" in any of your local repositories would break >> others >> with that approach. > > > Alternatively there's the git-new-workdir script in contrib/workdir in > git.git. Haven't tested it, but it seems like it does what you want. > > Frans -- 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