From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 21:09:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Add a "Flattened Cache" to `git --clone`?
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR4GBkd2==5G1d_514bcsAULYaFQatQg7odmO-ZmHHohg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200514210501.GY1596452@mit.edu>

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:05 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> If the goal is a git local cache, we have this today.  I'm not sure
> this is what Caleb was asking for, though:
>
> git clone --bare https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git base
> git clone --reference base https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git ext4

For that sort of use-case, git-worktree may also be a suitable solution.