Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 16:42 UTC
Message-ID: <455C94FA.3050903@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611160814560.3349@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds escreveu:

> So current rule (and this is not new, it's always been true): the ONLY 
> time you use "git init-db" is when you are going to start a totally new 
> project. Never _ever_ otherwise. If you want to track another project, use 
> "git clone".

Actually, only a 2 weeks ago, you suggested that I share the website and main source code for my project in a single repository for reasons of organization.

In this setup I find it logical to do

  git init-db
  git pull ..url.. website/master

to wind up with just the 5mb website, instead of the complete 70mb of packed source code with all of its branches and tags.

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> It's not that it isn't typical, it's that you are using the wrong model. 
> Maybe it's not well documented, I can easily give you that, but ALL your 
> problems come from that fundamental starting point: you shouldn't have 
> used "git init-db" in the first place.
> 
> Somebody want to document it?
> 
> Alternatively, we certainly _could_ make "git pull" just accept an empty 
> git repo, and make it basically create the current branch.

Yes, I would like that.