From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:42:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to "git clone --bare --origin=blah"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804232340310.26553@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzhsqlfi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It seems useless to have an option in "git remote add" just because it 
> > might be necessary in a future refactoring of "git clone", but without 
> > a good use case beside that one.
> 
> Ooo.  But I think that's the other way around.

I think it is very much the other way round.  "git remote add" is meant 
for adding _additional_ remotes.  "git clone" just _happens_ to install an 
"origin" remote.

I even have a case where I used "--mirror" _twice_ in the same, _non_-bare 
repository.  It has merit, you know?

Ciao,
Dscho