From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>,
Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:48:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqhcjp6clm.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CBAEC42B-9F50-4723-9847-640D9832532E@silverinsanity.com> (Brian Gernhardt's message of "Tue\, 13 Nov 2007 14\:50\:49 -0500")
Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 5:50 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> While clone normally does a bit more:
>>
>> [remote "origin"]
>> url = /tmp/git1/.git
>> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>> [branch "master"]
>> remote = origin
>> merge = refs/heads/master
>
> But how is clone expected to do that when the origin is an empty
> repo? There is no branch for it to track, and automagically setting
> it to master is bogus because then it's tracking something that
> doesn't exist.
An implementation of that would probably need to special-case the
empty repository. But an empty repository is already a special case.
HEAD already points to master, and master is already hardcoded here:
$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
So, it's possible for HEAD to point to a branch which doesn't exist
yet, it's possible to commit to a branch which doesn't exist yet. It
would make sense to extend that to allow a remote to point to a branch
which doesn't exist either.
But don't get me wrong: I probably won't implement that myself, so I
can't _ask_ people to do it for me. I would just appreciate if people
stopped calling me (and other users interested in a sane empty clone
behavior) idiot because I think it would make sense to do it.
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-13 21:51 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 [this message]
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
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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