Re: Managing multiple branches in git

On 06/02/2009 05:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Kreen<markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> They cannot be same commits in GIT as the resulting tree is different.
> I don't see any even-approximately-sane way to handle similar cases
> in git. From what I've learned so far, you can have one checkout
> at a time in a git working tree, which would mean N copies of the
> entire repository if I want N working trees. Not to mention the
> impossibility of getting it to regard parallel commits as related
> in any way whatsoever.
You can use the "--reference" option to git clone to refer to objects in
another clone. That way most of the commits will only be stored in there
- only the local commits will be in the local checkout.

Andres