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From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:01:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1408690918.5586.3.camel@seahawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F6B1AB.3030706@symas.com>

On do, 2014-08-21 at 19:57 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> I maintain multiple copies of the same repo because I keep each one checked 
> out to different branch/rev levels. It would be nice if, similar to clone 
> --reference, we could also use git fetch --reference to reference a local repo 
> when doing a fetch to pull in updates.

Alternatively, you can use Duy's multiple-work-trees patches to safely
make multiple checkouts of one repository. These patches are in next.  
-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
http://www.kaarsemaker.net

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-22  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-22  2:57 Wishlist: git fetch --reference Howard Chu
2014-08-22  4:20 ` Jeff King
2014-08-22  5:25   ` Howard Chu
2014-08-22  7:01 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]

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