Re: git-fetch per-repository speed issues

Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:14:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

  

quoted

Well, you could use multiple branches in the same repository, even if they 
are totally unrealated. That would allow you to fetch them all in one go.
    

One annoying thing about this is that you may want to have several of
the branches checked out at a time (i.e., you want the actual directory
structure of libXrandr/, Xorg/, etc). You could pull everything down
into one repo and point small pseudo-repos at it with alternates, but I
would think that would become a mess with pushes. You can do some magic
with read-tree --prefix, but again, I'm not sure how you'd make commits
on the correct branch.  Is there an easier way to do this?
  

You can have multiple source trees, one per 'branch' (which is a bit of
a bad term here), and have completely unrelated things in the branches.

See, for an example, the main Git repo, which has the "man", "html", and
"todo" branches, logically distinct and (somewhat) unrelated to the main
branch tucked away in "master".

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Ryan Anderson
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