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Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to "git clone --bare --origin=blah"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2008, 22:02 UTC
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Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
> It seems useless to have an option in "git remote add" just because it
> might be necessary in a future refactoring of "git clone", but without
> a good use case beside that one.

Ooo. But I think that's the other way around. It was prepared for that purpose but people never followed through. Check the archive around commit 3894439 (Teach "git remote" a mirror mode, 2007-09-02).

> --mirror" is close to useless: anyone who needs it 99% of the time
> knows how to hack the config...

Eh, in that sense, "git remote" itself is useless, isn't it? I have to say that this particular point of your argument does not give us any new or interesting insight to work from.

As I already said, I think "push to backup" option would be useful. It just cannot take over --mirror option, which means something different.

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  1. Paolo BonziniApr 23, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinApr 23, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2008
  4. Daniel BarkalowApr 23, 2008
  5. Jeff KingApr 23, 2008
  6. Paolo BonziniApr 23, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 23, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinApr 23, 2008
  9. Paolo BonziniApr 24, 2008

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