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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 17:57 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121755460.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7iknqrtp.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > So you need to populate the repository before starting _anyway_.
> 
> Last time I checked, the thread was talking about bare repository.

Wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.

It was talking about _cloning_ an _empty_ repository. (Bare or not is not interesting in this context.)

> Perhaps you have a magic formula to populate a bare repository without 
> pushing to it from another repo, but I don't.

No, but that was not what I was questioning.  No, sir, not at all.

Ciao, Dscho

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