From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 12:23:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Message-ID: <63c4e1944dcfd03e8c9ff324080ff62f@ulrik.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <947c3d6ae263495985543764a57c3fbb-mfwitten@gmail.com>

 On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:21:29 -0000, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> 
 wrote:
>On Wed, 02 May 2012 16:21:07 +0200, Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
>> And in a bare repository:
>>
>>     git init --bare foo.git
>>     cd              foo.git
>>     git remote add bar ../bar.git
>>     git fetch      bar
>>         --> adds bar/master etc.
>>
>> For some reason, 'git clone --bare' does not treat the cloned
>> repository the same way - it just copies it under refs/heads/
>> instead of refs/remotes/, without even adding it as a remote.
>
> What do you mean?

 I mean 'git clone --bare bar.git foo.git' does not give foo.git
 a remote named 'origin' with a branch origin/master.  Not sure
 if there is a _simple_ way to do it well either.  init + fetch
 above does not try to hardlink objects/packs like clone does.

> (...)
>   $ git init bar.git; cd bar.git
>   $ echo a > a; git add a; git commit -m a; cd ..
>   $ git clone --bare bar.git foo.git; cd foo.git

     $ git branch -a
     * master

>   $ git remote add bar ../bar.git
>   $ git fetch bar

-- 
 Hallvard