From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:03:08 GMT
Subject: Re: copying git repositories ...
Message-ID: <201102281603.08375.andres@anarazel.de>
In-Reply-To: <1298903102.14697.127.camel@lenovo-w500>

Hi Michael,

On Monday, February 28, 2011 03:25:02 PM Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Andres & Brian,
> 	For #2 - I would use the verb 'clone' except of course the 'clone' I'm
> talking about would be one that is identical, the same, with no
> differences (not eg. missing a few limbs ;-)
> 
> 	Clearly cp -lR is bad & evil and all that; but it yields exactly what I
> need to effectively manage my local trees, multiple checkouts, and
> different builds without burning the entire disk.
> 
> 	Is there a blessed 'cp -lR' wrapper for git that is functionally
> identical ? [ and I'm happy of course for some slow divergence, and loss
> of efficiency as I pull more changes from time to time into each tree ].
What about git clone --reference=oldrepo ssh://upstream/ ?

Andres