From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:42:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <473C0661.5010307@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18235.34578.886521.944550@lisa.zopyra.com>
Bill Lear wrote:
>
> What's wrong with 'git init --mirror git://host/repo'?
It wouldn't match other --mirror options. You would want it to set up
refs/remotes namespace for you, but the other --mirror options (those
in push/fetch) are meant to explicitly ignore refs/remotes and make
sure branches are named exactly the same on both sides (hence --mirror).
I wouldn't mind if it was given some other option that did what you
wanted, but having --mirror mean two such very different things would
be bad.
"git init --remote origin=git://host/repo", where the lhs of the equal
sign would default to "origin" might be a good way to implement it.
Personally I don't have any problems with the current way of getting
things done, so it's not my itch.
>
>> (I actually think that it is another example of cvs/svn damage, where you
>> _need_ to clone first, or otherwise you will _never_ be able to commit
>> to the repository.)
>
> I think there is a tendency here to blame every shortcoming of git on
> someone else's supposedly unsanitary past rather than facing up to
> inherent problems in git itself. We have several very senior, very
> dedicated software developers who LOVE git, and who loathe CVS, but
> who nevertheless find many vexing issues in git.
>
git is not perfect. It's just better than everything else. Bringing up
those vexing issues here is one way of making it better though, so thanks
for doing that. :)
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-15 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-12 13:11 What is the idea for bare repositories? David Kastrup
2007-11-12 13:19 ` Bruno Cesar Ribas
2007-11-12 13:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 16:19 ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-11-12 16:34 ` Cloning empty repositories, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 16:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 17:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 17:24 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-12 17:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 17:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 17:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:02 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 18:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:09 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-12 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12 22:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 22:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 22:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-13 0:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-13 9:48 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 10:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-13 10:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 11:40 ` Jeff King
2007-11-13 19:50 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-11-13 21:48 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 23:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-14 9:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-13 17:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-13 10:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 11:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-13 22:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 9:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 12:09 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 13:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-14 14:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-14 14:13 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 20:16 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-14 20:22 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-14 20:30 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-14 20:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-14 23:38 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-15 0:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-15 8:42 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-11-15 1:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-15 8:51 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-15 12:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
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2007-11-15 13:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-15 6:19 ` Jeff King
2007-11-18 0:25 ` Jeff King
2007-11-18 1:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-18 3:25 ` Jeff King
2007-11-12 18:55 ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-11-12 17:55 ` Bill Lear
2007-11-12 17:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 17:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-12 18:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-12 19:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-12 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12 22:49 ` Jakub Narebski
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2007-11-12 17:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-12 16:39 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-12 14:20 ` David Tweed
2007-11-12 16:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-12 16:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-12 16:54 ` David Kastrup
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