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From: Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@gmail.com>
Subject: GIT_WORK_TREE and GIT_DIR with git clone
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:59:16 +0200
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Hi,

I would like to have git clone respect GIT_DIR (and --git-dir) so I
can clone multiple repos into the same working directory (I know there
was another request for this[1]).

The pattern here is big projects that are modularized into multiple
git repositories, but supposed to be overlaid over a common directory
structure.

I would like to be able to tell my users that they can simply do:

git clone --git-dir=_/git/module1/.git module1-url
git clone --git-dir=_/git/module2/.git module2-url

which will overlay the files from both modules into the current
directory, which from git's perspective is the work-tree for both
modules.


[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170073/match=git_work_tree+git_dir+git+clone