From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:26:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Why not clone to a remote directory over SSH
Message-ID: <7vd5kr3pz1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051123211601.GA2260@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>

Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:

> It might be cool to enable cloning to a remote over ssh if the remote
> doesn't yet exist.
>
> % git clone . machine:/path/to/new/repository

I wonder if that is:

	$ ssh machine 'git clone '`hostname`:`pwd`' /path/to/new/repository'

Obviously you need a working git setup on the other end and
probably need to be much more careful shell-quoting if your
hostname and pwd has metacharacters, but...