[mythtv] Note for people who have cloned MythTV repo

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 02:50:16 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:39 PM, James Cloos
<cloos+mythtv-dev at jhcloos.com> wrote:
> Rather than just say re-clone, it would be better to recommend:
>
>   move your old repo out of the way
>   clone with --reference OLD_REPO
>   rsync old clone's .git/objects/ over the new clone's .git/objects/
>   remove the new clone's .git/objects/info/alternates file
>
> That will avoid the massive bandwidth waste of just doing a fresh clone.

HAHAHAHA..   I am so not going to ask git neophytes to do that ;)
Really, a one-time re-clone isn't the end of the world, and for those
who didn't know how to deal with it, I'm sure they do now.  Relax :)


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