Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference

2014-08-22 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
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

Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference

2014-08-21 Thread Howard Chu
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

Re: Wishlist: git fetch --reference

2014-08-21 Thread Jeff King
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 w

Wishlist: git fetch --reference

2014-08-21 Thread Howard Chu
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,