From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:32:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository
Message-ID: <20090123223205.GA11491@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901230419080.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:20:34AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Probably.  Note, however, that scripts might rely on a fail if there were 
> problems.
> 
> But then, scripts have no business cloning repositories (fetching, yes.  
> But cloning?)

Really? I have scripts that call clone (usually followed by building the
result). Are you proposing that all scripts should "git init && git
remote add && git fetch"?

So I am strongly in favor of telling the difference between failure and
emptiness.

-Peff