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Wishlist: git fetch --reference

From
Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Date
Aug 22, 2014, 02:57 UTC
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<53F6B1AB.3030706@symas.com>

I maintain multiple copies of the same repo because I keep each one checked out to different branch/rev levels. It would be nice if, similar to clone --reference, we could also use git fetch --reference to reference a local repo when doing a fetch to pull in updates.

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