From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: Add "clone" support to lntree
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:07:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504161902380.30848-100000@iabervon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050416230000.GN19099@pasky.ji.cz>
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:06:54AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
>
> > I think "fork" is as good as anything for describing the operation. I had
> > thought about "clone" because it seemed to fill the role that "bk
> > clone" had (although I never used BK, so I'm not sure). It doesn't seem
> > useful to me to try cloning multiple remote repositories, since you'd get
> > a copy of anything common from each; you just want to suck everything into
> > the same .git/objects and split off working directories.
>
> Actually, what about if git pull outside of repository did what git
> clone does now? I'd kinda like clone instead of fork too.
This seems like the best solution to me, too. Although that would make
pull take a URL when making a new repository and not otherwise, which
might be confusing. "init-remote" perhaps, or maybe just have "init" do it
if given a URL?
-Daniel
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-16 1:56 [PATCH] Add "clone" support to lntree Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 2:47 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 2:58 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 3:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-16 11:39 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 3:17 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 23:33 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 0:07 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-19 1:12 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 2:13 ` Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge? David A. Wheeler
2005-04-19 9:18 ` David Greaves
2005-04-19 9:28 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 10:05 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-19 10:50 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-19 13:54 ` Jon Seymour
2005-04-19 14:40 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-19 18:28 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-19 22:39 ` David A. Wheeler
2005-04-19 23:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-20 7:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-20 20:05 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 20:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-20 20:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-20 21:15 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-20 23:58 ` David Mansfield
2005-04-16 3:06 ` Add "clone" support to lntree Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-16 23:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-16 23:07 ` Daniel Barkalow [this message]
2005-04-16 23:44 ` Petr Baudis
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