faster git recloning* (intermediate) anthony explains

[@cakeinsauce]

Congrats on 40k Anthony, thanks for the effort you put into knowledge sharing!

[@alexandreboisselet8336]

4:56 I didn’t loose my head 😂

[@jaopredoramires]

Wait what was that move? You can just mv without specifying where to? Or am I missing on curly braces syntax

[@anthonywritescode]

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[@BenjaminWheeler0510]

Could this be useful for large teams who all need to clone a repo?

[@anthonywritescode]

yep! we used a version of this at Yelp but before dissociate existed (so lots of corrupted git repos if you forked a non-upstream branch)

[@bomarni]

Out of interest would worktrees help with this workflow or not related?

[@anthonywritescode]

sort of, they solve a different problem and don't remove local ref state (which was one of the goals at least in my situation)

[@mrswats]

Is there a way to dissociate a repo after you have cloned? I'm the way you can unshallow a shallow cloned repository.

[@anthonywritescode]

apparently `git repack -a -d` and then manually deleting the alternates file - a little spooky (but that's all that dissociate does)

[@mrswats]

@@anthonywritescode nice!

[@sq546]

great wideo!

[@MrMongoosesRawesome]

Curious if all-repos could use this? Or maybe it's not necessary since it does a shallow clone?

[@anthonywritescode]

possibly! even with shallow clones there should be some object reuse (at least for the final tree)

[@doongjohnlee820]

Is it same as duplicating the project dir and doing the `git clean -df && git restore .` in the duplicated dir?

[@anthonywritescode]

it depends, the clone will also retrieve any new objects since the original clone (so it's only equivalent if upstream has not diverged)

[@FunkyELF]

I wonder if cloning with --dissociate and --reference actually copies objects on disk or if it creates hardlinks. I know if you `git clone file:///path/to/repo` it'll create new files but if you `git clone /path/to/file` it creates hardlinks.

[@anthonywritescode]

pretty easy to just try it and find out!