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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 11:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711131118360.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzlxiiii6.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > But both of Johannes's points apply equally well to an empty bare 
> > repository and to an empty non bare repository.  IOW, bareness does 
> > not matter to the suggestion Johannes gave.
> 
> He was suggesting to create the initial commit before cloning:
> 
> >> So you need to populate the repository before starting _anyway_.

Of course I was suggesting to push into the still empty, bare repository, before anybody is cloning.

Ciao, Dscho

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