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From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/2] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:15:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM0VKjm0MY-DrOX+LuPqvk1L5od3g+SFA_k6dh0QT7ZT7HSh-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vanv8wq4.fsf@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

>     diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>     index 35cc34b2fb..2169e5c97f 100644
>     --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>     +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>     @@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
>             values are given for the same key, each value will be written to
>             the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add
>             additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.
>     ++
>     +The underlying implementation of `git clone` isn't equivalent to `git
>     +init` followed by a `git fetch`, but the two share some of the
>     +underlying fetch machinery.

I think this is unnecessarily technical and detailed to be included
under the docs of the '--config' option.

> Because of this, setting configuration
>     +variables which would impact `git fetch` doesn't have any effect on
>     +`git clone` at all.

This is not true, several such configuration variables work even
during cloning, see:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/CAM0VKjkSMnemwPbFihXiQui3wm_wYmQeQmgYrFs5bfsH1jMg1A@mail.gmail.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-16 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-15 11:05 [PATCHv3 0/4] clone: respect configured fetch respecs during initial fetch SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 11:05 ` [PATCHv3 1/4] clone: respect additional configured fetch refspecs " SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 23:07   ` Jeff King
2017-05-26 10:04     ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-26 13:30       ` Jeff King
2017-05-30  3:53         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-30  3:55           ` Jeff King
2017-05-30  7:11           ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-30  7:12             ` [PATCHv4 1/2] " SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-30  7:12               ` [PATCHv4 2/2] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-30  9:01                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-31  8:50                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-31 14:17                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-13 23:24                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-31  4:23               ` [PATCHv4 1/2] clone: respect additional configured fetch refspecs during initial fetch Jeff King
2017-05-31  9:34                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-05  8:18                   ` Jeff King
2017-06-06 18:19                     ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-06 18:37                       ` Jeff King
2017-06-07 11:17                         ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-14  0:48               ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-06-14  9:50                 ` Jeff King
2017-06-16 17:36                 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-16 17:38                   ` [PATCHv5 0/2] " SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-16 17:38                     ` [PATCHv5 1/2] " SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-16 20:37                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-06-17 11:22                       ` Jeff King
2017-06-22 22:23                         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-12  0:48                           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-16 17:38                     ` [PATCHv5 2/2] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables SZEDER Gábor
2017-06-16 18:23                       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-16 20:41                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-06-16 21:10                           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-06-16 22:15                             ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2017-06-16 20:38                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-06-16 22:09                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-31  4:27             ` [PATCH] remote: drop free_refspecs() function Jeff King
2017-06-14  0:49               ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-05-15 11:05 ` [PATCHv3 2/4] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-26 14:01   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 11:05 ` [PATCHv3 3/4] remote: drop free_refspecs() function SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 11:05 ` [PATCHv3 4/4] clone: use free_refspec() to free refspec list SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 11:29   ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 23:10     ` Jeff King
2017-05-23  7:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-05-23 11:27       ` Jeff King
2017-05-23 12:06       ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-05-15 22:46 ` [PATCHv3 0/4] clone: respect configured fetch respecs during initial fetch Jeff King

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