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Hopefully a dumb question that I missed an answer for in the docs. If I have an existing git repo (not hosted on github), is there a way to try using sapling with it? Or do I need to clone it from scratch?

My impression from the blog post is that I can use sapling and have everything "look" git-like from the remote repo's point of view.

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You should be able to `sl clone ...` your git repo into a Sapling clone and use it that way, even if the repository is not on Github. I haven't personally tried whether cloning like `sl clone /path/to/some/repo` works, but it should since we're actually using the actual git binary under the hood for clone, pull, and push.

Is that a one-way street, or can I personally adopt Sapling for our Git repos without my collaborators even noticing? (For now.)

You could personally clone a git repo with Sapling and no one would know the difference. When using Sapling with a git repo, clone, push, and pull all use the actual git binary under the hood, so the server just sees git speaking to it.

That's great, looking forward to giving it a shot!

Just to clarify, I meant that I've already cloned it via git. Can I just start using sapling with it or do I need to delete the local repo and re-clone it with sapling?

You cannot just start using sl in a git repo. You need to make a Sapling clone of it.

But you can make a Sapling clone of your local git repository, so you don't have to clone from the server again and you would get all your local work from your git repo. That might be the easiest way to try Sapling, so you don't have to delete your git checkout at all.

> But you can make a Sapling clone of your local git repository

Whoa I didn't even know you could do that in git. I always considered clone to mean "download stuff from this location" but now it makes more sense. Thanks I'll give that a try.

What's the command in sl to clone a local git repo? The documentation does not say anything about it...

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