Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference
On do, 2014-08-21 at 19:57 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: I maintain multiple copies of the same repo because I keep each one checked out to different branch/rev levels. It would be nice if, similar to clone --reference, we could also use git fetch --reference to reference a local repo when doing a fetch to pull in updates. Alternatively, you can use Duy's multiple-work-trees patches to safely make multiple checkouts of one repository. These patches are in next. -- Dennis Kaarsemaker http://www.kaarsemaker.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Wishlist: git fetch --reference
I maintain multiple copies of the same repo because I keep each one checked out to different branch/rev levels. It would be nice if, similar to clone --reference, we could also use git fetch --reference to reference a local repo when doing a fetch to pull in updates. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference
Jeff King wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:57:47PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: I maintain multiple copies of the same repo because I keep each one checked out to different branch/rev levels. It would be nice if, similar to clone --reference, we could also use git fetch --reference to reference a local repo when doing a fetch to pull in updates. I think it is just spelled: echo $reference_repo .git/objects/info/alternates git fetch We need --reference with clone because that first line needs to happen after clone runs git init but before it runs git fetch. And if you cloned with --reference, of course, the alternates file remains and further fetches will automatically use it. Aha, thanks, hadn't realized that. Just checked and yes, the alternates file is already set in all of these different copies. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
