On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:22:53AM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote:
> These fail because I can't use a remote tracking branch as a
> source for the clone. It should be possible to do:
>
> $ git clone --reference . --single-branch --branch todo git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git Meta
>
> but that will require (I think) network access during a fetch.
Yes, it will. Junio mentioned already that for him, "Meta" is really a
separate repository, and I think the simplest thing is to just treat it
that way (that's how I handle my personal "meta" branch).
But if you really want to save the extra network round trip during a
fetch, you can either:
1. Just fetch from the surrounding repository using a custom refspec,
like:
git init Meta
cd Meta
git config add remote.origin.url ..
git config add remote.origin.fetch \
refs/remotes/origin/todo:refs/remotes/origin/todo
git fetch
git checkout todo
or
2. Look into the git-new-workdir script in contrib/workdir, which lets
you check out an alternate branch in a separate directory.
The latter would probably be the most seamless, but it's also the most
likely to have bugs. :)
-Peff
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