git conversion in progress

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 14 2020, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:34:13PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Jan 14 2020, Georg-Johann Lay wrote:
>> 
>> > git clone --reference original-gcc ...
>> 
>> Don't use --reference.  It is too easy to lose work if you don't know
>> what you are doing.
>
> Wouldn't git clone --reference original-gcc --dissociate ...
> be ok?  I.e. just save bandwidth when needing second repo if for whatever
> reason git worktree isn't possible?

Yes, this is safe, since the new clone will be independent and
standalone.  It will contain a duplicate of the object database, though.

Andreas.

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