I often want to take a base tree, which I keep tracking some remote head,
and make a local working tree that starts from it. This makes "git ln -c
<dest>" give you a tree that you can just start working in and then diff
against the head you'd started from and send off.
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: gitlntree.sh
===================================================================
--- b068d3ec7c00cfe4a1f14a898f61c4807cd5bc8b/gitlntree.sh (mode:100755
sha1:17c4966ea64aeced96ae4f1b00f3775c1904b0f1)
+++ 0877e1b9b70a4305959b7f65ace4044e4ae0afdb/gitlntree.sh (mode:100755
sha1:84cbf0492996f1139b992147b4f53bc14342e3f2)
@@ -7,11 +7,14 @@
# same objects database as the current one. It also shares the
# branches and tags information.
#
-# The new directory is completely pristine - there's not even
-# a directory cache there yet.
-#
# Takes the new directory name.
+if [ "$1" = "-c" ]
+then
+ clone=yes
+ shift 1
+fi
+
destdir=$1
die () {
@@ -32,3 +35,12 @@
ln -s $srcdir/.git/objects $dgitdir/objects
ln -s $srcdir/.git/remotes $dgitdir/remotes
ln -s $srcdir/.git/tags $dgitdir/tags
+
+if [ "$clone" != "" ]
+then
+ cp $srcdir/.git/HEAD $dgitdir/HEAD
+ cd $destdir
+ read-tree $(tree-id)
+ checkout-cache -a
+ update-cache --refresh
+fi
-
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