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Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference

From
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date
Aug 22, 2014, 07:01 UTC
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<1408690918.5586.3.camel@seahawk>
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On do, 2014-08-21 at 19:57 -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.

Alternatively, you can use Duy's multiple-work-trees patches to safely make multiple checkouts of one repository. These patches are in next. 

-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
http://www.kaarsemaker.net
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  1. Howard ChuAug 22, 2014
  2. Jeff KingAug 22, 2014
  3. Howard ChuAug 22, 2014
  4. Dennis KaarsemakerAug 22, 2014

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