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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Clone with local alternates?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:56:58 -0400
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> 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.

  git clone --reference=/foo git://remote/foo

would do the trick.  This is new in 1.3.0.  I just noticed its also
not documented in 1.3.0.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.