I have a Git repository, let’s call it Foo, which I have cloned twice on the same Windows machine. Let’s call the two local repositories Foo1 (in C:reposFoo1) and Foo2 (in C:reposFoo2).

Now the reason I have two clones is that I sometimes need to work on different branches at the time: for instance, I may be working on a feature branch on the “working” local repo Foo1, but then I need to release a urgent hotfix on main and I don’t want (or cannot) switch away from the feature branch, so I just move to Foo2 and use that for the urgent hotfix. However, the actual reason is irrelevant: I just explained it to clarify the setup.

I have a branch I’m working on in Foo1, and another one I’m working on in Foo2. None of these branches are ready to be published, and since I may want to rebase them on main in the future I’d rather not push them to the remote origin (i.e., Foo) that they share.

I want to check if the changes in the branch2 branch from Foo2 can fix the problems that developed because of the changes in the branch1 branch from Foo1. I want to “push” branch2 to Foo1 and rebase branch1 onto it. However, none of the two repos is bare, and they’re also on a Windows machine, so I don’t know if it’s even possible (let alone recommended) to do such a thing.

Can I somehow “share” a branch between the two local repos without pushing/pulling it to/from the remote?