From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:55:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <18232.37763.897729.895378@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121727130.4362@racer.site>

On Monday, November 12, 2007 at 17:30:10 (+0000) Johannes Schindelin writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> We have an administrator create a new bare repo for us, and we populate 
>> it by pushing into it.  It wold be nice if the administrator could 
>> create a bare repo and we could clone from it, and push to it to 
>> populate it, instead of cloning the bare repo from another repo that has 
>> already been (partly) populated.
>
>I don't see what is soooo hard with using git-remote in the repo you are 
>pushing from.  It's just a "git remote add origin <url>", and you can even 
>use this to push right afterwards: "git push --all origin".
>
>Besides, if you really want to work together, chances are that you do 
>_not_ want to start with <n> independent initial commits.  So you need to 
>populate the repository before starting _anyway_.
>
>Why are easy solutions so unattractive?

Well, 1) to answer your first point: it's not soooo hard, but it's an
extra step that just seems unnecessary.  2) It's not the *easiest*
solution that one can think of, so people naturally complain: "why do
I have to push in the clutch AND select the gear"?


Bill