On 2/12/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/12/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > "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.
Does this use hard links so that if I whack my linux-2.6 it won't also destroy my wireless-dev repo? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - 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