[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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