#!/bin/sh usage () { echo "usage:" $@ exit 127 } die () { echo $@ exit 128 } if test $# -lt 2 || test $# -gt 3 then usage "$0 []" fi orig_git=$1 new_workdir=$2 branch=$3 # want to make sure that what is pointed to has a .git directory ... git_dir=$(cd "$orig_git" 2>/dev/null && git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null) || die "\"$orig_git\" is not a git repository!" case "$git_dir" in .git) git_dir="$orig_git/.git" ;; .) git_dir=$orig_git ;; esac # don't link to a workdir if test -L "$git_dir/config" then die "\"$orig_git\" is a working directory only, please specify" \ "a complete repository." fi # make sure the the links use full paths git_dir=$(cd "$git_dir"; pwd) # create the workdir mkdir -p "$new_workdir/.git" || die "unable to create \"$new_workdir\"!" # create the links to the original repo. explictly exclude index, HEAD and # logs/HEAD from the list since they are purely related to the current working # directory, and should not be shared. for x in config refs logs/refs objects info hooks packed-refs remotes rr-cache do case $x in */*) mkdir -p "$(dirname "$new_workdir/.git/$x")" ;; esac ln -s "$git_dir/$x" "$new_workdir/.git/$x" done # now setup the workdir cd "$new_workdir" # copy the HEAD from the original repository as a default branch cp "$git_dir/HEAD" .git/HEAD # checkout the branch (either the same as HEAD from the original repository, or # the one that was asked for) git checkout -f $branch