Re: [PATCHv4 2/2] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
- Date
- May 30, 2017, 09:01 UTC
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- <CACBZZX740rcQKnfkRXgn0+fmeUDaWL-Kz5WzKeyUvBhXWPwPhg@mail.gmail.com>
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- <20170530071244.32257-2-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:12 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Due to limitations/bugs in the current implementation, some
> configuration variables specified via 'git clone -c var=val' (or 'git
> -c var=val clone') are ignored during the initial fetch and checkout.
>
> Let the users know which configuration variables are known to be
> ignored ('remote.origin.mirror' and 'remote.origin.tagOpt') under the
> documentation of 'git clone -c'.
>
> Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/git-clone.txt | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> index ec41d3d69..4f1e7d4ba 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> @@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
> values are given for the same key, each value will be written to
> the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add
> additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.
> + Note that due to limitations of the current implementation some
> + configuration variables don't take effect during the initial
> + fetch and checkout. Configuration variables known to not take
> + effect are: `remote.<name>.mirror` and `remote.<name>.tagOpt`.We should add to that: "Instead supply the --mirror and --no-tags options, respectively".
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> --depth <depth>:: > Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the > -- > 2.13.0.35.g14b6294b1 >