Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121727130.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <18232.35893.243300.179076@lisa.zopyra.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bill Lear wrote:

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> We have an administrator create a new bare repo for us, and we populate 
> it by pushing into it.  It wold be nice if the administrator could 
> create a bare repo and we could clone from it, and push to it to 
> populate it, instead of cloning the bare repo from another repo that has 
> already been (partly) populated.

I don't see what is soooo hard with using git-remote in the repo you are pushing from. It's just a "git remote add origin <url>", and you can even use this to push right afterwards: "git push --all origin".

Besides, if you really want to work together, chances are that you do _not_ want to start with <n> independent initial commits. So you need to populate the repository before starting _anyway_.

Why are easy solutions so unattractive?

Ciao, Dscho