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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Ken.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 04:02:27PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/14/2015 6:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie 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.

> You can fix that by issuing the following command in the new repo:

>   git remote set-url origin <userid>@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs.git master

> After doing that, you'll to do 'git pull' in order to bring in the remote 
> branches, and then you can do 'git checkout emacs-25'.

First of all, many thanks for actually addressing the question I asked.
;-)

What I did in the end was to clone a new repo with the --mirror argument
(so as to copy all the branches, rather than creating new ones pointing
at the original repo), and manually edited .../.git/config so as to get
working directories.  Then I changed the remote origin url in that file
by hand.

Having done "git checkout", I was then able to "git pull" from savannah,
and switch to branch emacs-25 with another "git checkout".

So, I'm where I want to be!

Thanks again.

> Ken

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).