From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yin Ping" Subject: Dose git-fetch need --reference option like git-clone? Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:09:55 +0800 Message-ID: <46dff0320711110009y713c7d38q7b1457c92daecef6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 11 09:10:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ir7ta-0000qE-V7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:10:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751994AbXKKIJ5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:09:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752131AbXKKIJ5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:09:57 -0500 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:60017 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751707AbXKKIJ4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:09:56 -0500 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so569055pyb for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:09:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=zelJlZXRzYab4tNLYHGXrL6eNcTShtGzOa1y/VnV+0U=; b=pgHirPVA5txVFbzyPeG3ZPIDrwJManHM7C4Vg5Wm9UAagL0N9DRRAedjr6WQTYSaXD2eJjVKrsEjMDlMFAxoIKn5UD/0JQ99mYAIkc8f6jOf07Id0WNySh886WxfCZ40wvxvRNIiSpN6n01tKp7rWgEv0ItXuwS4bWUCwXJoE68= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=HxAQknqkTm+TBh3qnM6UaGaUsyCzztl1H44ZqPnLxCqKrCE6mcC6qYiKpBlx4Sc4PYE7x4XUK+48nhu4N2FSYRvqQ995wyeiKZPLDbKXaaoS2O1SUgq8XVusGd5VYxmygWgp8YQ3WWxAIbZ9OUHlTySMoKCkClF1XI6RsghZEDM= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr4463350pym.1194768595683; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:09:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.108.1 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:09:55 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I want to track remote repsotory (say remoteA) on my local repository (say localB), so i do the following in directory localB $ git remote add remoteA git://remoteAUrl $ git fetch remoteA This will fetch all objects from git://remoteAUrl if localB and remoteA don't have common objects. If I already have a cloned remoteA on local machine (say /path/to/remoteACloned), I want to do following to reduce the net traffic as git-clone: git fetch --reference /path/to/remoteACloned remotedA Is this reasonable? Or is there already a resolution for this case? -- Ping Yin