From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:08:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server
Message-ID: <7vr6svaowm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910702112155m3f5da9abgbeb2b6783005296f@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> I am guilty of doing initial clones for different kernel trees from
> kernel.org when I could be doing a local clone of linus' tree and then
> pulling the deltas from kernel.org. But I'm lazy, I just kick the
> clone off in the background and it finishes in three or four minutes.
> I also do the clones when I have messed my local trees up so much that
> I don't know what is in them anymore.

Time to learn to use --reference perhaps?

	git clone --reference linux-2.6 git://.../linville/wireless-dev.git

where "linux-2.6" is local repository which is my personal copy
of Linus's repo.