From: W. Trevor King Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:46:25 +0000 (-0400) Subject: doc/clone: Pick more compelling paths for the --reference example X-Git-Tag: v1.8.4-rc0~98^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f22a6543d17d615068652d0f94397f558158d91a;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git doc/clone: Pick more compelling paths for the --reference example There may be times when using one of your local repositories as a reference for a new clone make sense, but the implied version-bump in the old example isn't one of them. I think a more intuitive example is multi-user system with a central reference clone, and the new paths hint at this use case. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index d8a64d4a99..84729b0887 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ $ git show-branch * Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory: + ------------ -$ git clone --reference my2.6 \ - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.7 \ - my2.7 -$ cd my2.7 +$ git clone --reference /git/linux.git \ + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git \ + my-linux +$ cd my-linux ------------