From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Clone with local alternates? Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:48:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1145404132.16166.97.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 19 01:48:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVzw7-0006GS-V5 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:48:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750841AbWDRXsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:48:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750840AbWDRXsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:48:45 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34787 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750837AbWDRXso (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:48:44 -0400 Received: from shinybook.infradead.org ([81.187.2.165]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.61 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1FVzw3-00018h-46 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:48:43 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 (2.6.0-1.dwmw2.1) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. Is that _really_ the best way of doing it though? It would be better if we just had a '--local-alternates=/foo' option to git-clone when cloning a remote repository. -- dwmw2