From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:27:23 GMT
Subject: Re: 'typechange' in the git-status output
Message-ID: <20110314192723.GA22434@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110314192238.GA30378@elie>

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:22:38PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Drew Northup wrote:
> 
> > As has been said more than a few times (and is probably somewhere in the
> > docs), if you really want to duplicate a git repo you should probably be
> > using git to do it.
> 
> FWIW I don't agree with this advice.  "cp -a" works perfectly well and
> I think that's a valuable thing.

Agreed. Note that "cp -a" really _duplicates_ a repo: refs, config,
unreferenced objects, current packed state, etc. Using git to copy makes
a clone, which is subtly different. So I don't think there is any reason
to dissuade people from "cp -a" (cp without "-a", on the other hand, can
be problematic as shown here).

-Peff