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Re: Re: Add "clone" support to lntree

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Apr 16, 2005, 23:07 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.21.0504161902380.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 05:06:54AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...
>
> > I think "fork" is as good as anything for describing the operation. I had
> > thought about "clone" because it seemed to fill the role that "bk
> > clone" had (although I never used BK, so I'm not sure). It doesn't seem
> > useful to me to try cloning multiple remote repositories, since you'd get
> > a copy of anything common from each; you just want to suck everything into
> > the same .git/objects and split off working directories.
> 
> Actually, what about if git pull outside of repository did what git
> clone does now? I'd kinda like clone instead of fork too.

This seems like the best solution to me, too. Although that would make pull take a URL when making a new repository and not otherwise, which might be confusing. "init-remote" perhaps, or maybe just have "init" do it if given a URL?

	-Daniel
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  1. Add "clone" support to lntreeDaniel Barkalow, Apr 16, 2005
  2. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  3. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  6. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  8. Daniel BarkalowApr 17, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  10. Change "pull" to _only_ download, and "git update"=pull+merge?David A. Wheeler, Apr 19, 2005
  11. David GreavesApr 19, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  13. Martin SchlemmerApr 19, 2005
  14. Petr BaudisApr 19, 2005
  15. Jon SeymourApr 19, 2005
  16. Martin SchlemmerApr 19, 2005
  17. Daniel BarkalowApr 19, 2005
  18. David A. WheelerApr 19, 2005
  19. Daniel BarkalowApr 19, 2005
  20. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  21. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  22. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  23. Ingo MolnarApr 20, 2005
  24. Petr BaudisApr 20, 2005
  25. David MansfieldApr 20, 2005
  26. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  27. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005
  28. Daniel BarkalowApr 16, 2005
  29. Petr BaudisApr 16, 2005

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