From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Cc: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: 'git clone' doesn't use alternates automatically?
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:38:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vocxnylzz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <885649360901311732t6e4f8651p6c3955f018b9a36c@mail.gmail.com> (James Pickens's message of "Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:32:06 -0700")
James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> writes:
> ... Sounds like I have no choice
> but to use --reference for that.
As --reference was invented exactly for that use case, I think using it to
instruct where to borrow your object from is a very sensible thing to do.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-01 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 22:12 'git clone' doesn't use alternates automatically? James Pickens
2009-01-31 7:12 ` Jeff King
2009-01-31 20:08 ` James Pickens
2009-01-31 21:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-31 21:43 ` James Pickens
2009-01-31 21:55 ` Jeff King
2009-02-01 1:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02 13:07 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 4:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 6:06 ` Jeff King
2009-02-01 0:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-01 1:32 ` James Pickens
2009-02-01 1:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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