Re: Multiple checkout copies

[Richard Stallman]

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  > A slightly different version of the above will save disk space by using
  > hard links to files in the original repository:
  >  git clone emacs emacs-24
  >  cd emacs-24
  >  git checkout emacs-24

Thanks.  Maybe that is what I want to do.

  > Sigh.  The second method (creating a clone of the repo) will make this
  > clone have the original repository as its upstream, not the remote one.
  > So the second approach will _only_ let you share stuff by going through
  > the first repository.

My idea is to do my editing in the 'emacs' directory, as well as
pulling updates there.  So these points seem like features rather than
bugs.

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