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[PATCH 3/3] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 14, 2018, 10:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20181114104620.32478-4-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20181114104620.32478-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

Due to limitations in the current implementation, some configuration variables specified via 'git clone -c var=val' (or 'git -c var=val clone') are ignored during the initial fetch and checkout.

Let the users know which configuration variables are known to be ignored ('remote.origin.mirror' and 'remote.origin.tagOpt') under the documentation of 'git clone -c', along with hints to use the options '--mirror' and '--no-tags' instead.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-clone.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index a55536f0bf..2fd12524f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 	values are given for the same key, each value will be written to
 	the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add
 	additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.
++
+Due to limitations of the current implementation, some configuration
+variables do not take effect until after the initial fetch and checkout.
+Configuration variables known to not take effect are:
+`remote.<name>.mirror` and `remote.<name>.tagOpt`.  Use the
+corresponding `--mirror` and `--no-tags` options instead.
 
 --depth <depth>::
 	Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
-- 
2.19.1.1182.gbfcc7ed3e6
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  1. 0/3 clone: respect configured fetch respecs during initial fetchSZEDER Gábor, Nov 14, 2018
  2. 1/3 clone: use a more appropriate variable name for the default refspecSZEDER Gábor, Nov 14, 2018
  3. Jeff KingNov 15, 2018
  4. 2/3 clone: respect additional configured fetch refspecs during initial fetchSZEDER Gábor, Nov 14, 2018
  5. Jeff KingNov 15, 2018
  6. 3/3 Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variablesSZEDER Gábor, Nov 14, 2018
  7. Jeff KingNov 15, 2018
  8. Jeff KingNov 15, 2018
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 16, 2018

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