Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server

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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am guilty of doing initial clones for different kernel trees from
> kernel.org when I could be doing a local clone of linus' tree and then
> pulling the deltas from kernel.org. But I'm lazy, I just kick the
> clone off in the background and it finishes in three or four minutes.
> I also do the clones when I have messed my local trees up so much that
> I don't know what is in them anymore.

Time to learn to use --reference perhaps?

	git clone --reference linux-2.6 git://.../linville/wireless-dev.git

where "linux-2.6" is local repository which is my personal copy
of Linus's repo.

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