Re: Multiple checkout copies

[Richard Stallman]

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   > $ git clone --shared emacs-1 emacs-2

sounded like just the right thing until you posted
the caveat.  After this, I hesitate to use it:

          > Using --shared may be risky, as Git may choose to GC the
          > dangling objects away from emacs-1, not taking into account the
          > possibility of them being used in some other trees.  In my case,
          > the source directory is often a “bare” Git repository used only
          > to mirror the upstream one, and thus it has no “local” commits,
          > which are somewhat likely to become dangling after rebases and
          > such.

Maybe I could use it in that way, but is there no way to make two
working trees both checked out in parallel from the same repository?

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