From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Clone with local alternates?
Message-ID: <20060418235658.GB8915@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1145404132.16166.97.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> Often I want to clone a remote repository but would like to use an
> existing local source tree as 'alternates'. 
> 
> One way of doing this is to clone the local tree with 'git-clone -l -s',
> find the latest common commit shared with the remote tree to be fetched,
> revert to that with 'git-reset --head $last' and then pulling from the
> remote. 
> 
> Is that _really_ the best way of doing it though? It would be better if
> we just had a '--local-alternates=/foo' option to git-clone when cloning
> a remote repository.

  git clone --reference=/foo git://remote/foo

would do the trick.  This is new in 1.3.0.  I just noticed its also
not documented in 1.3.0.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.