Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 10:50 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqpryefmhj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20071113100209.GE14735@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> So setting up an empty tree is basically that:
>
> 	mkdir foo && cd foo && git init &&
> 	git remote add origin $url

It is not.

The "git remote add" thing adds this to my .git/config:

[remote "origin"]
        url = /tmp/git1
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

While clone normally does a bit more:

[remote "origin"]
        url = /tmp/git1/.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master

So, it's really

$ git remote add origin url
$ $EDITOR .git/config    # or perhaps I missed the way to set the two
                         # options easily.

I find it so conveinient to have it for non-empty clones, it's frustrating to have to do it by hand for empty clones.

-- 
Matthieu