From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:55:12 GMT
Subject: Re: libreoffice merge(tool?) issue #3 ... (bogus)
Message-ID: <201102252155.13466.andres@anarazel.de>
In-Reply-To: <1298565560.32648.258.camel@lenovo-w500>

Hi,

On Thursday 24 February 2011 17:39:20 Michael Meeks wrote:
> 	Anyhow - I tried your kind advice:
> 
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 10:55 -0500, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> > FYI: `git clone foo bar` will use hard-links to copy the object
> > files and is both very fast and space efficient.  (See the
> > description of `--local` in git-clone(1), which is used by
> > default for local repositories since git 1.5.3.)  It's also
> > guaranteed to work while the correctness of `cp -lR` depends
> > on implementation details of git.
> 
> 	Sounds like just what I need. Unfortunately, it didn't clone some of
> the pieces I needed; eg. other configured remotes, I ended up with just
> 'origin' - which was unexpected (and less wonderful than cp -lR ;-).
See the --mirror option for clone

Per default only local refs get copied over.

Andres