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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Feb 13 14:07:48 2007
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