From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:43:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-svn: Instructions for cloning a git-svn-created repository
Message-ID: <20070810014312.GE9764@hand.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <46BBADBB.6070502@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong wrote:
> >I personally believe using rsync to clone repositories created with
> >git-svn is the simplest and best method for now.
> 
> But then you don't get to use alternates -- one of the things I like 
> about the idea of doing a "git clone" of a git-svn repository is that 
> you could do "git clone -s" and get the full svn history with a tiny 
> .git directory.

If I'm working on multiple directories  on the same machine, I have
libflcow in my LD_PRELOAD and use cp -al (GNU-specific) to make hardlink
images of my working directory.  I've been using fl-cow with cp -al
since long before I used git.

The new-ish git-new-workdir command could probably be a replacement
for git-clone / flcow + cp -al / rsync in these situations as well.

-- 
Eric Wong