Single working branch with Git

Question

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Is there a portable way to use a single repository w/ multiple checkouts? As an alternative to ha

Answer 1

If you git clone with a local path, everything under .git/objects (that is, most of the commits and data in your repository) is hardlinked to the old repo wherever possible and takes up next to no disk space. So if you want two different working directories, it's not very expensive to just clone your repo locally. Trying to manage two different working directories from one repository might work, but it's not worth the trouble.

Basically, run git clone /path/to/old/repo new_repo and everything will Just Work.