From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:49:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 7] [resend] - Improve handling remotes, origin, submodules
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802042149030.8543@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w7sjt7n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > AFAICT "clone -o" was meant _only_ for this scenario:
> >
> > You have a slow connection, but someone can provide you with a thumb 
> > drive, having the current repository.
> >
> > You clone it from the thumb drive, but of course you want to use your 
> > (slow) connection for subsequent updates (i.e. you want to have a 
> > different default remote).
> >
> > What you do is
> >
> > 	$ git clone -o thumbdrive /media/usbdisk/that-repository.git/
> >
> > Then, to be able to update from your preferred remote quickly, you add 
> > the proper remote:
> >
> > 	$ git remote add --fetch origin git://git.kernel.org/shlub.git/
> >
> > In my understanding, this scenario is the only reason to live for 
> > clone's -o option, and it would be actively wrong for it to change the 
> > _name_ of the default remote to "thumbdrive".
> 
> Then we should fix "git-clone".
> 
> If you do the first command, I am reasonably sure that you would get:
> 
> 	[branch "master"]
>         	remote = thumbdrive
> 
> in your .git/config.  You may want to occasionally go back to thumbdrive 
> for sneakernetting, so I do not think we should remove [remote 
> "thumbdrive"] section the clone would leave, but the above "master 
> branch would interact with thumbdrive repository" should not be there.
> 
> And that corrected behaviour and the intended use of -o should be 
> documented.

Fully agree.  It is now point 38 on my ever-growing TODO list.

Ciao,
Dscho