From: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:23:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFC] "clone --naked"?
Message-ID: <43CCFDEA.2997.15EA2FA@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wz7clps.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 17 Jan 2006 at 0:17, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
> 
> > ...  My original intention was that I
> > thought them to be little descriptive regarding their
> > function.  You seem to have "--bare" and "--naked". Hard to
> > guess what they really do.
> 
> True.  "A repository without an associated working tree".  I do

--rmo --repository-metadata-only?
--sdf --sans-data-files?
--rwwt (Repository Without Working Tree)?
--qdr (Quick-and-Dirty Repository)?

...

I think you have your own ideas...

Ulrich


> not know a short and sweet phrase to describe that (well, except
> "bare" and "naked", which I kind of already got used to).
> 
> Whatever word we choose to describe that, it should go to the
> glossary document.
>