From: Matt McCutchen <hashproduct+git@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:14:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Multiple checkouts of the same repository
Message-ID: <3bbc18d20610011214y6132d98eq9cd58b23721bb87d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610012105590.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 10/1/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> A better method is to use a local clone:
>
>         git-clone --local --shared A  B
>
> Such a clone will be very fast, and cheap, because it sets up links (not
> just symbolic links, but links that git understands).

But that gives me two separate repositories, so I have to push and
pull to keep them in sync, which is a pain.

I symlinked only the top-level things in .git, not the individual
files inside them.  That is to say, B/.git/objects is a symlink to
A/.git/objects, B/.git/refs is a symlink to A/.git/refs, etc.  In
fact, this is necessary for A to see objects and refs written through
B.

Matt