From: Mike Gant <mwgant@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:27:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone operation
Message-ID: <8f282e3b0808191927t7c202a2dvdff678bcec60d87f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8f282e3b0808191923w18001cc6sef828d94b35e40c6@mail.gmail.com>

> Thanks for your responses. I appreciate you guys taking the time to answer.
>
> After thinking about this, I still don't understand when I clone a
> repo why I will
> get the equivalent of whatever branch is active at the time of cloning? What
> was the process that led to this design decision?
>
> So that also got me thinking about work flows with git. Because of the way clone
> works it seems that you wouldn't want someone to clone your every day "work"
> repository? So do developers generally have a separate repository that they push
> to and others can clone? This repository may have only a 'master' branch (but
> probably others I seem to recall Junio describing other branches in the main git
> repository). Is this a 'normal' work flow?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Gant
>

Also, I meant to add if the above work flow is the git way of
development, is this
the purpose of a bare repository?