can I configure git clone to preserve the '.git' when it makes the initial dir

As I'm moving to more use of git I find it very helpful to keep the '.git' suffix on the names of directories in which I have git repositories. This makes it easier to distinguish between checkouts using different SCMs.

Is there a way to configure git clone to preserve the '.git' suffix when creating a directory?

Thanks for any ideas.

Hi,

Stephen Bannasch wrote:

When you finally fall in love with git, you won't want to use another SCM. :) Even, if you have to, there is git-cvs{exportcommit,import}, git-svn, and some other more or less working interfaces from git to other SCMs.

Perhaps it's also worth having a look at http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/ (I've never used it, but heard of people who like using it.)

I don't know a configuration for that, but you can simply do:
	git clone <repository> <reponame>.git
(e.g.	git clone git://example.com/foo.git foo.git)

But, btw, I think some unofficial convention is, that the ".git" suffix indicates a bare repository and without that suffix it is a checked out working tree.

Regards,
  Stephan