From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:08:24 GMT
Subject: Re: libreoffice merge(tool?) issue #3 ... (bogus)
Message-ID: <4D677F98.7080502@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <1298565560.32648.258.camel@lenovo-w500>

Michael Meeks venit, vidit, dixit 24.02.2011 17:39:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> 	First - it seems that the issue here was entirely bogus, not least
> because we had a bug with re-writing these makefiles as we checked them
> in; so hopefully only 2 issues pending ;-)
> 
> 	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 ;-).
> 
> 	Is that a feature ?

Yes, because by cloning someone else's config they could make you do
what they want (alias...).

I think in your case you can just copy over the .git/config and maybe
set up "alternates" so that you don't have to refetch the remote objects
which are not referenced by local refs. (Alternatively, clone --mirror,
then copy over config and turn into non bare.)

Maybe we do need "clone --copy" or something as a safe version of "cp -al"?

Michael