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Why not clone to a remote directory over SSH

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CBCarl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2005, 21:16 UTC
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It might be cool to enable cloning to a remote over ssh if the remote doesn't yet exist.

% git clone . machine:/path/to/new/repository

If you try this now it will clone the current working repository to a new directory called 'machine:'.

Carl
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