From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Howard Chu Subject: Wishlist: git fetch --reference Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:57:47 -0700 Message-ID: <53F6B1AB.3030706@symas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 22 05:17:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XKfLr-0002UH-Cc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 05:17:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755471AbaHVDRJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:17:09 -0400 Received: from zill.ext.symas.net ([69.43.206.106]:58496 "EHLO zill.ext.symas.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753984AbaHVDRI (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:17:08 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1159 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:17:08 EDT Received: from cust233-73.nwewn.com ([78.155.233.73] helo=[192.168.1.103]) by zill.ext.symas.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XKf2z-0007fQ-9h for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:57:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 SeaMonkey/2.27a1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/