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From:   Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 17:09:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: Add a "Flattened Cache" to `git --clone`?
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc:     Caleb Gray <hey@calebgray.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:05 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> If the goal is a git local cache, we have this today.  I'm not sure
> this is what Caleb was asking for, though:
>
> git clone --bare https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git base
> git clone --reference base https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git ext4

For that sort of use-case, git-worktree may also be a suitable solution.