In message <hbf.20111216zcin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hallvard Breien Furuseth writes:
I wrote:
> Do you often need to clone from a remote? Instead of cloning from a
> local (git clone --mirror) which gets auto-updated from the remote.
Er, obviously not, since you tried that with rsync. Create the mirror
with 'git clone --mirror', then update it with 'git fetch' rather than
rsync.
If you really need to perform a full clone from the buildbot with or
without a different working directory (for instance if you have
buildbots/checkout users running in parallel where multiple users need
a consistent HEAD for multiple sequential operations) then instead
consider cloning with --reference or --shared. There are severe
restrictions on what you should do with aggressive sharing (man
git-clone), but if all you are doing is normal checkouts, tags,
commits, etc, then it would be just fine. Of course remember to add a
remote for the real upstream if you are planning on pushing
changes/tags back.
-Seth Robertson
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