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GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR with git clone

From
Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 20, 2014, 15:59 UTC
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Hi,

I would like to have git clone respect GIT_DIR (and --git-dir) so I can clone multiple repos into the same working directory (I know there was another request for this[1]).

The pattern here is big projects that are modularized into multiple git repositories, but supposed to be overlaid over a common directory structure.

I would like to be able to tell my users that they can simply do:

git clone --git-dir=_/git/module1/.git module1-url git clone --git-dir=_/git/module2/.git module2-url

which will overlay the files from both modules into the current directory, which from git's perspective is the work-tree for both modules.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170073/match=git_work_tree+git_dir+git+clone
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