From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:58:39 GMT
Subject: Re: clone --bare vs push
Message-ID: <20110104045839.GA8225@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <ifu8d2$t61$1@dough.gmane.org>

Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> you can also use the file:// url format to create a complete copy and not 
> use hardlinks.  see git-clone manpage.
> 
> e.g. git clone --bare file:///fullpathto/X y.git

Thanks, that's useful; cc-ing Levend.

[Side note: I wrote in the past:

| In traditional newsgroups it seems to be most common to just reply to
| the author by mail or follow-up to the group, so I wouldn't feel too
| bad.

but probably that was unclear of me.  The convention on _this_ list[1] is
to reply to all participants in a thread, so new participants do not
need to subscribe if they don't want to.  Thunderbird (e.g.) seems to
be good at doing that for what it's worth.]

[1] at least as I perceive it; please feel free to correct me if I
have misunderstood