Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 2/12/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am guilty of doing initial clones for different kernel trees from
> > kernel.org when I could be doing a local clone of linus' tree and then
> > pulling the deltas from kernel.org. But I'm lazy, I just kick the
> > clone off in the background and it finishes in three or four minutes.
> > I also do the clones when I have messed my local trees up so much that
> > I don't know what is in them anymore.
>
> Time to learn to use --reference perhaps?
>
>         git clone --reference linux-2.6 git://.../linville/wireless-dev.git
>
> where "linux-2.6" is local repository which is my personal copy
> of Linus's repo.

I knew you smart guys would have a command to do this. This is in the
category of a command that I use infrequently enough that I forget
about it.

Something like Cogito could be smart so that when you did a clone
command it could prompt you if you wanted a new repo or to share an
existing one.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com