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Re: Clone with local alternates?

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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date
Apr 19, 2006, 09:36 UTC
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
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> Often I want to clone a remote repository but would like to use an
> existing local source tree as 'alternates'. 
>
> One way of doing this is to clone the local tree with 'git-clone -l -s',
> find the latest common commit shared with the remote tree to be fetched,
> revert to that with 'git-reset --head $last' and then pulling from the
> remote.

Simpler than the git-reset you can simply do git-fetch remote branch:branch and git will find common ancestor for you and create a new branch that mirrors the old one.

I mention this because it can be interesting to have branches from several remote repositories all in one local repository.

Eric
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Message 7 of 7 in “Clone with local alternates?”
  1. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2006
  2. Shawn PearceApr 18, 2006
  3. David WoodhouseApr 18, 2006
  4. Document git-clone --referenceShawn Pearce, Apr 19, 2006
  5. David WoodhouseApr 19, 2006
  6. Eric W. BiedermanApr 19, 2006
  7. Eric W. BiedermanApr 19, 2006

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