Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

From: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2015, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID: <569EEC82-664C-48A7-990D-BFCDB7D78D16@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+ToGPFSbOjfd5gJg+r-7WkwMB=m=4sOupaZo1WUn+O0bxAAXw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 7, 2015, at 17:53, Diego Viola wrote:

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> Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about:
>
> $ mkdir non-empty-dir
> $ cd non-empty-dir
> $ touch foo bar baz
> $ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git .
> $ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
> Untracked files:
>  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>
>    bar
>    baz
>    foo
>
> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add"  
> to track)

Have you considered using an alias?

git config --global alias.irfc \
   '!sh -c '\''git init && git remote add origin "$1" && git fetch &&  
git checkout "${2:-master}"'\'' sh'

(You'll likely have to carefully unwrap that line above.)

Then you get

   git irfc <URL> [<branch>]

where <branch> defaults to master. So your scenario would become just:

$ mkdir non-empty-dir
$ cd non-empty-dir
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git irfc url:user/dotfiles.git
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    bar
    baz
    foo

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

-Kyle

P.S. irfc = init, remote, fetch, checkout. But do make up a better name. :)