Subject: Re: how to reduce disk usage for large .git dirs?

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:21:20 +0100

On Thu, Nov 13, Roger Gammans wrote:

> Note the first sentence of the second paragraph.
>  eg:
>  # git clone git://host/repo.git repo-master
>  # git clone repo-master repo-branchA
>  # cd repo-branchA
>  # git checkout -b branchA origin/branchA

It fails right here because in this dir only "master" exists, but
branchA is expected.

So far the sequence of commands is:

# git clone git://host/repo.git repo-master
# cd repo-master
# git checkout -b branchA origin/branchA
# git checkout -b branchB origin/branchB
# cd -
# git clone -l -b branchA repo-master repo-branchA
# git clone -l -b branchB repo-master repo-branchB

Next step will be:
# $do_work ; git commit -avs ; git push 

Will that work as expected? Will find out after lunch..

Olaf