From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:20:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901230419080.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0901221847u6b8aeadcl580a091751de3d26@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:42, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > HTTP being 2nd class citizen anyway (and we can always fix it after 
> > Mike's cleanups), I'd say this patch is ready to roll.
> 
> Aside from that, am I correct in asserting that in the "worst case" 
> scenario the repo is cloned instead of erroring out, and a simple "git 
> fetch" would fix the issue?

Probably.  Note, however, that scripts might rely on a fail if there were 
problems.

But then, scripts have no business cloning repositories (fetching, yes.  
But cloning?)

Ciao,
Dscho