# Reuse .git directory.

3 messages from 2010-03-25 to 2010-03-25. Participants: Mahesh Vaidya, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23177

## Mahesh Vaidya, 2010-03-25 17:50

Subject: Reuse .git directory.
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Reuse .git directory.

I would like work 4 different branch simultaneously viz.

master, feature, bugfix, expt but would like to use same same GIT_DIR. Is this possible ? so that I can save some space ?

I have tried following 
* git clone /path/to/repos
* export GIT_DIR=/path/to/repos/.git
* mkdir ~/feature
* git checkout -b feature master

This step misses the files. Please advise me if such an approach is correct ?


Thx

Mahesh

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## Ramkumar Ramachandra, 2010-03-25 17:58

Subject: Re: Reuse .git directory.
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Hi,

> I would like work 4 different branch simultaneously viz.
> master, feature, bugfix, expt but would like to use same same GIT_DIR. Is this possible ? so that I can save some space ?

All Git branches *are* contained in the same GIT_DIR. I'm not sure
what your question is, but I suspect you don't understand how
branching works in Git. Please read up some introductory material on
this.

-- Ram

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## Junio C Hamano, 2010-03-25 19:24

Subject: Re: Reuse .git directory.
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git-new-worktree, perhaps?

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