Jeff King wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:57:47PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
I maintain multiple copies of the same repo because I keep each one checked
out to different branch/rev levels. It would be nice if, similar to clone
--reference, we could also use git fetch --reference to reference a local
repo when doing a fetch to pull in updates.
I think it is just spelled:
echo $reference_repo >>.git/objects/info/alternates
git fetch
We need "--reference" with clone because that first line needs to happen
after clone runs "git init" but before it runs "git fetch". And if you
cloned with --reference, of course, the alternates file remains and
further fetches will automatically use it.
Aha, thanks, hadn't realized that. Just checked and yes, the alternates file
is already set in all of these different copies.
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