Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2007, 16:40 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910702120840p3fd2a18ar2e3b91564556dc43@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910702120724y2a0ba6b0h3f571aa2306872a5@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/12/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2/12/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > "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.

Does this use hard links so that if I whack my linux-2.6 it won't also destroy my wireless-dev repo?

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com