From: Thierry Moreau Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:50:40 GMT Subject: Re: Self-inflicted "abort" in a newbie attempt at read-only exploration of a cloned repository? Message-ID: <5AC6C460.7060005@connotech.com> In-Reply-To: On 05/04/18 11:34 PM, Bryan Turner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Bryan Turner wrote: >> >> So passing --work-tree tells Git where to store your _files_, but it's >> still using the same .git directory. >> >> If your goal is to have worktrees for various versions, that implies >> the git worktree [1] command might be more along the lines of what >> you're looking for. An invocation based on above might look like this: >> $ git -C linux-stable/ worktree add $PWD/tmp/ checkout linux-4.15.y > > Apologies, I didn't mean to have the "checkout" in that. > $ git -C linux-stable/ worktree add $PWD/tmp/ linux-4.15.y > >> >> That should leave linux-4.16.y checked out in linux-stable, while >> creating a full work tree in $PWD/tmp that has 4.15.y checked out. >> >> Note that worktree is a newer git command. 2.17 has it, but old >> versions like 2.1 won't. >> >> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree >> >> Hope this helps! For sure, it helps! Thanks. - Thierry