From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:17:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone --shared should imply --local
Message-ID: <1133248651.27750.82.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <7viruclymo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:08 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The "--shared" option to git-clone is silently ignored if "--local" is
> > not specified.  The manual doesn't mention such dependency.  Make
> > "--shared" imply "--local".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> 
> Hmph, then probably the manual should say it implies it...

Actually, from the user point of view --local and --shared are
alternatives to each other and to the default behavior.  --local copies
files, --shared makes a reference.

Saying that --shared implies --local could sound like git-clone would
still copy all objects.

My description was from the implementation point of view.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin