Re: quick bare clones taking longer?

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: May 9, 2007, 22:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20070509.150256.59469756.davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <7virb1sm6h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 14:48:38 -0700

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> > + no_checkout=yes
> > + use_separate_remote=
> > + test -z ''
> > + origin=origin
> > ++ get_repo_base ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> > + base=
> 
> This part puzzles me.  The only way I could reproduce this was:
> 
> $ ls -F victim victim.git
> ls: victim: No such file or directory
> victim.git:
> ./   HEAD	config	 description	       hooks/  lost-found/  refs/
> ../  branches/	config~  gitcvs.master.sqlite  info/   objects/     remotes/
> $ mkdir j
> $ cd j
> $ git clone --bare -l -s -n ../victim new.git
> 
> That is, I did not have ../victim but I did have ../victim.git/
> repository, and I gave the former to "git clone".
> 
> But that suggests that you do not have ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> directory but instead have ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git.git/ which
> sound a bit insane.
> 
> Puzzled...

This deeply puzzles me too.

I'm just not going to go into my git directory using that symlink in my home directory any more. :-)