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

[chris . nixon]

Assuming you havn't done anything fancy with your clone and that
you have a recent version of git (at least 2.5) you can use

    git worktree add -b emacs-25 ../emacs-25 origin/emacs-25

From the root of the current clone to create a new worktree at
../emacs-25 that shares the current repository's .git repo.


Chris


Alan Mackenzie writes:

> 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)?


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