From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Michael K. Edwards" Subject: git fetch --reference? Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:38:26 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=D5y8LvU0oqWzWW1DYCh9uVSqJsGfhp3UGDEkxz2P2YPheWtLoCDMQ1tHCID3Upib9/L+uajFGF7PJMonmZ5kv4lwJO7DjNEaxYTN5X/5FHoT4aTmuyQriBAbDSCMI0ncIQjVR/VIXdw3etuD3yWY5w5Lwx1gIVmqlwioveJQd5o= Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gk8nP-0000XI-GS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:38:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966545AbWKOAi2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:38:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966543AbWKOAi2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:38:28 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.231]:11854 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966545AbWKOAi1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:38:27 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so15434wxc for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:38:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.105.19 with SMTP id d19mr1845298agc.1163551106979; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:38:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.25.4 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:38:26 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org When setting up a working area for kernel integration for a new embedded target, I generally do a "git clone --reference" so that the new area has its own repository (and its own branch structure) but most of the blobs come from a local reference copy. But now that I'm integrating bits from several non-trivially divergent trees (mtd-2.6, netdev-2.6, linux-2.6.16.y, etc.), it would be nice to avoid re-downloading blobs for these additional remote branches, which are also available in the local reference copy. Is it feasible to implement "git fetch --reference" for this purpose? Or is there a better way to manage this sort of integration effort? Cheers,