multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts)

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 16, 2006, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <455CA2A8.5010700@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611160904010.3349@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds escreveu:

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> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I don't disagree per se. It should be easy to support, it's just that it's 
> not traditionally been something we've ever done.
> 
> So the way you'd normally set up a single repo that contains multiple 
> other existing repositories is to basically start with one ("git clone")

You're misunderstanding me: the multi-repo is at git.sv.gnu.org is the remote one. The example I gave was about locally creating a single project repo from a remote multiproject repo.

On a tangent: why is there no reverse-clone? I have no shell access to the machine, so when I created the remote repo, I had to push, and ended up putting 1.2 Gb data on the server.

<looks at manpage>

is this send-pack? From UI perspective it would be nice if this could also be done with clone,

  git clone . ssh+git://....

>And that "git pull" semantic actually means that if you want a _bare_ 
>repository, I think "git --bare init-db" + "git --bare fetch" actually

yes, this works. Two remarks:

* it needs

  website/master:master

otherwise you still don't have a branch.

* why are objects downloaded twice?  If I do

  git --bare fetch git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git web/master

it downloads stuff, but I don't get a branch. If I then do

  git --bare fetch git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git web/master:master

it downloads the same stuff again.

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