Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 11:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20071113114059.GC15845@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqpryefmhj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:50:16AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> The "git remote add" thing adds this to my .git/config:
> 
> [remote "origin"]
>         url = /tmp/git1
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> 
> 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

Also, git-clone sets up the HEAD symref automagically (you can specify it manually with git-remote, but git-clone will put it from the remote's HEAD).

-Peff

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