From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:29:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone --bare --origin incompatible?
Message-ID: <87y41f8czg.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161023110338.GA1486@isis.sigpipe.cz>

On Okt 23 2016, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> wrote:

> what is the reason clone --bare prohibits --origin?
>
>   % git clone --bare -o fubar anything anywhere
>   fatal: --bare and --origin fubar options are incompatible.

Since a bare clone maps remote branches directly to local branches,
without any remote-tracking branches, --origin doesn't make sense.

Andreas.

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