From f50bfec34b15905ceaf58be4271c896a60565bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:44:12 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.3.0-g85e6

---
 git-clone.html | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 git-clone.txt  | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-clone.html b/git-clone.html
index 42c85d57..1d3b4512 100644
--- a/git-clone.html
+++ b/git-clone.html
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ git-clone(1) Manual Page
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="verseblock">
 <div class="content"><em>git-clone</em> [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [-o &lt;name&gt;] [-u &lt;upload-pack&gt;]
+          [--reference &lt;repository&gt;]
           &lt;repository&gt; [&lt;directory&gt;]</div></div>
 </div>
 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
@@ -323,12 +324,25 @@ branch you are currently working on.  Remote branches other than
 <p>
         When the repository to clone is on the local machine,
         instead of using hard links, automatically setup
-        .git/objects/info/alternatives to share the objects
+        .git/objects/info/alternates to share the objects
         with the source repository.  The resulting repository
         starts out without any object of its own.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
+--reference &lt;repository&gt;
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<p>
+        If the reference repository is on the local machine
+        automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternates to
+        obtain objects from the reference repository.  Using
+        an already existing repository as an alternate will
+        require less objects to be copied from the repository
+        being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.
+</p>
+</dd>
+<dt>
 --quiet
 </dt>
 <dt>
@@ -434,6 +448,18 @@ $ git show-branch</tt></pre>
 </div></div>
 </dd>
 <dt>
+Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory
+</dt>
+<dd>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content">
+<pre><tt>$ git clone --reference my2.6 \
+        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.7 \
+        my2.7
+$ cd my2.7</tt></pre>
+</div></div>
+</dd>
+<dt>
 Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public
 </dt>
 <dd>
@@ -468,7 +494,7 @@ Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus
 </div>
 <div id="footer">
 <div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 10-Mar-2006 00:31:23 UTC
+Last updated 19-Apr-2006 09:44:08 UTC
 </div>
 </div>
 </body>
diff --git a/git-clone.txt b/git-clone.txt
index 9ac54c28..131e4457 100644
--- a/git-clone.txt
+++ b/git-clone.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-clone' [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>]
+	  [--reference <repository>]
 	  <repository> [<directory>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -46,10 +47,18 @@ OPTIONS
 -s::
 	When the repository to clone is on the local machine,
 	instead of using hard links, automatically setup
-	.git/objects/info/alternatives to share the objects
+	.git/objects/info/alternates to share the objects
 	with the source repository.  The resulting repository
 	starts out without any object of its own.
 
+--reference <repository>::
+	If the reference repository is on the local machine
+	automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternates to
+	obtain objects from the reference repository.  Using
+	an already existing repository as an alternate will
+	require less objects to be copied from the repository
+	being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.
+
 --quiet::
 -q::
 	Operate quietly.  This flag is passed to "rsync" and
@@ -112,6 +121,16 @@ $ 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
+------------
+
+
 Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public::
 +
 ------------
-- 
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