From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:35:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <vpqir45w4nh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711132352340.4362@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> But I illustrated that cloning from an empty repository makes no sense.

And I, and others, illustrated the opposite.

> There is a huge difference between calling somebody an idiot on the one 
> side, and investing some time to help somebody who has a suboptimal 
> workflow on the other one.

You didn't show me where my proposed flow was suboptimal.

> But I fear that you took my help as a personal attack, and as a 
> consequence you feel insulted, and I wasted my precious time.

Do you call _that_ "help"?

,----
| Last time I checked, those geneticists did not clone thin air.  They 
| always waited until they had something to clone.
`----

To me, this classifies either as "totally irrelevant remark", or as
"making fun of someone". Definitely not "help".

-- 
Matthieu