Proxy git commands to only one clone

Question

I've got a couple of processes which use the same git repositories, but they insist on treating them as separate things. That leads to me having a number of clones of the same repository under different local locations.

Is there any existing wrapper for git that would ensure I have only one repo with hard links? What I'd expect it to do is:

On clone, check in $GIT_CLONES_PATH if a given url has been checked out already. If it's not there, clone to that location, then hardlink-clone to requested path.
On pull, first pull in $GIT_CLONES_PATH, then pull locally.
On push, push to the remote of $GIT_CLONES_PATH (to prevent conflicts after local push), then pull in the common location $GIT_CLONES_PATH.

I guess there are hundreds of edge cases I didn't think about here, so: does anyone know some existing project that does this?

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '12 at 19:26

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clone a local repo. If it's done from a local one, you should get hardlinks.

answered Oct 29 '12 at 19:26

Adam Dymitruk

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Thanks, but that misses the whole idea behind why I want to use it and the actually described flows ;) – viraptor Oct 29 '12 at 22:15
Not sure why you would want to bring on all this complexity if cloning from a local repo would solve it. – Adam Dymitruk Oct 29 '12 at 22:18

Proxy git commands to only one clone

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