From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:11:23 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone rsync:... ?
Message-ID: <7v4qb1ouwk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050711213050.GA18693@buici.com>

Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:

>   elf@florence /git > git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
>   defaulting to local storage area
>   ssh: rsync: Name or service not known
>   fatal: unexpected EOF

Hmph.  "git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git.git"
seems to work so does the exact command you show above.  Is it
possible that you are running git-clone-script from an older Git?

> Moreover, I'd like to be able to
> keep one repo that is just pulling from the net and then clone it for
> different working directories.

That is a sane thing to ask.  Assuming you have solved the above
problem:

    $ ls
    linux-2.6
    $ git clone -l linux-2.6 linux-ms
    $ git clone -l linux-2.6 linux-ms-net
    $ git clone -l linux-2.6 linux-ms-ide
    $ git clone -l linux-2.6 linux-ms-usb

would make local clones of vanilla linux-2.6 repo you locally
have ("-l" knows to use hardlinks when possible).