Re: Git question. Is there a way of duplicating a git repository?

[Liang Wang]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello, Emacs.
>
> Now that we've cut the emacs-25 release branch, I'd like to have a
> distinct repository for this.
>
> I could simply download another copy from savannah, but this would
> (presumably) be a distinct copy, rather than hard linking the repository
> files.  This would cost me disk (and backup) space.
>
> Or I could clone my master repository to make emacs-25.  But this would
> make the new repo firmly subordinate to the master repo, rather than
> directly with savannah.
>
> So, is there any convenient way of duplicating a repo (using hard links,
> and preserving config info)?

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir
might help.

>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>

Thanks,
Liang.