git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] clone: add --perm option to clone an shared repository

From
Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date
Jun 22, 2009, 10:19 UTC
Message-ID
<4A3F5AC0.20207@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.DEB.1.00.0906221134090.4168@intel-tinevez-2-302>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Show 13 quoted lines
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>> Roy Lee wrote:
>>> The term 'shared' used here is in the same context with git init.
>>> Unfortunately the 'shared' option has been taken, so I took the "perm"
>>> as a place holder in this patch. Any comments?
>> I think it would make sense to add "perm" to git-init too (and possibly
>> deprecate --shared).
> 
> Agreed.  After we teach everybody on this planet that "perm" means 
> "shared", and "shared" does not.

Or instead of teaching everybody on this planet that "shared" means "set permissions for sharing" in one context, and "use hard links and set up .git/objects/info/alternates, which by the way may be dangerous" in another. :-)

But you made me think, and maybe it is better to remove argument-less --shared instead. What Roy introduced seems much more useful in practice.

Paolo
Previous: Johannes SchindelinNext: Roy Lee
Message 4 of 5 in “clone: add --perm option to clone an shared repository”
  1. clone: add --perm option to clone an shared repositoryRoy Lee, Jun 21, 2009
  2. Paolo BonziniJun 22, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinJun 22, 2009
  4. Paolo BonziniJun 22, 2009
  5. Roy LeeJun 28, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.