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Re: git clone does not work with GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY set

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BLBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Date
Mar 7, 2006, 16:13 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:29:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I think the recommended way these days to set up multiple
> repositories that work on related projects is to set up a single
> clone from external source (e.g. linux-2.6.git), and make a set
> of local "-l -s" clones out of it, and then fetch forked
> upstreams into them.  It would go something like this:

I had been doing that, but it's gotten too painful to keep everything in sync. Sigh.

		-ben
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