From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:21:20 GMT
Subject: Re: how to reduce disk usage for large .git dirs?
Message-ID: <20141113122119.GC15503@aepfle.de>
In-Reply-To: <1415880149.4825.43.camel@knuth.computer-surgery.co.uk>

On Thu, Nov 13, Roger Gammans wrote:

> Note the first sentence of the second paragraph.
>  eg:
>  # git clone git://host/repo.git repo-master
>  # git clone repo-master repo-branchA
>  # cd repo-branchA
>  # git checkout -b branchA origin/branchA

It fails right here because in this dir only "master" exists, but
branchA is expected.

So far the sequence of commands is:

# git clone git://host/repo.git repo-master
# cd repo-master
# git checkout -b branchA origin/branchA
# git checkout -b branchB origin/branchB
# cd -
# git clone -l -b branchA repo-master repo-branchA
# git clone -l -b branchB repo-master repo-branchB

Next step will be:
# $do_work ; git commit -avs ; git push 

Will that work as expected? Will find out after lunch..


Olaf