Re: [PATCH] git-init: treat option `--bare'

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 29, 2008, 13:51 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805291448161.13507@racer.site.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlqaq67h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> In general, I am not particularly fond of this kind of special casing, 
> but initializing a bare repository would be a common enough operation 
> that I personally think it is probably Ok to take this as an exception.

I like the Perl way (having multiple options to do the same thing), and do not like the Python way ("there is only one way to do one thing").

> Opinions?  Breakages?

I like the intent of the patch. It will definitely make initializing bare Git repositories easier for new users.

Also keep in mind that "git --bare <some-command-other-than-init" is _really_ rare, at least in my experience. I had to use it exactly _twice_ since I started using Git.

Ciao, Dscho