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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git question.  Is there a way of duplicating a git repository?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:54:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86si4496zd.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151114213550.GA2995@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:35:50 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> What I want is a command (or a ready recipe) to do for git repositories
> what `fork' does for processes (but sharing the maximum possible from
> the original repository with hard links).  After writing my opening post
> I even tried a `git clone --mirror', but the resulting repository wasn't
> a mirror of the original at all.

I think "git worktree add" is what you are looking for. It requires git
2.5 or later.

-- 
-- Stephe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-17 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-14 11:20 Git question. Is there a way of duplicating a git repository? Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-14 17:03 ` Achim Gratz
2015-11-14 17:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-15 10:43   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-14 17:20 ` Liang Wang
2015-11-14 17:27 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-11-14 17:37 ` David Reitter
2015-11-14 17:57 ` chris.nixon
2015-11-14 18:17 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-14 21:35   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-16  8:42     ` David Kastrup
2015-11-17 11:54     ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-11-14 19:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-11-14 20:02 ` Andy Moreton
2015-11-14 21:02 ` Ken Brown
2015-11-15 10:33   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-11-15  2:46 ` Mike Gerwitz
2015-11-15  7:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-15 10:02 ` Steinar Bang

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