From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:15:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121715090.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpq3avbv2ju.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> >
> >> I found out that cloning a empty bare repository produces nothing at 
> >> all, [...]
> >
> > If they are empty, what exactly do you mean to clone?
> 
> I'd expect an empty repository, with the git remote configured 
> correctly.

Yeah, right.

Last time I checked, those geneticists did not clone thin air.  They 
always waited until they had something to clone.

Ciao,
Dscho