Re: Multiple checkouts of the same repository

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 1, 2006, 19:08 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610012105590.14200@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3bbc18d20610011203p40d631b7o3bd2c6971a2bfcca@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Matt McCutchen wrote:

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> Maybe this is common knowledge, but I thought I should mention it in
> case it isn't.  I had a git repository in a directory A and I wanted
> to check out a branch of the repository to a different directory B.
> So I created B/.git and filled it with symlinks pointing to the files
> in A/.git, except for index and HEAD because those need to be
> different for each checkout;

A better method is to use a local clone:

	git-clone --local --shared A  B

Such a clone will be very fast, and cheap, because it sets up links (not just symbolic links, but links that git understands).

Hth, Dscho