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Re: Git question. Is there a way of duplicating a git repository?
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Ken Brown |
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Re: Git question. Is there a way of duplicating a git repository? |
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Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:02:27 -0500 |
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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'.
Ken
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