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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Nov 12, 2007, 18:02 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy7d3pck0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121755460.4362@racer.site>

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

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > So you need to populate the repository before starting _anyway_.
>> 
>> Last time I checked, the thread was talking about bare repository. 
>
> Wrong.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Repeating it 4 times doesn't make it correct. You can even try 5 times, it won't change.

Grep for "bare" in the following text:

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| Hi,
| 
| On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote:
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| > I found out that cloning a empty bare repository produces nothing at 
| > all, [...]
| 
| If they are empty, what exactly do you mean to clone?
| 
| Ciao,
| Dscho
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And then, guess how I ended-up with that text (hint : cut-and-paste).

>> Perhaps you have a magic formula to populate a bare repository without 
>> pushing to it from another repo, but I don't.
>
> No, but that was not what I was questioning.  No, sir, not at all.

Perhaps you can reconsider this after reading the above.

-- 
Matthieu