# can I configure git clone to preserve the '.git' when it makes the initial dir 2 messages from 2008-07-04 to 2008-07-04. Participants: Stephen Bannasch, Stephan Beyer. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14292 ## Stephen Bannasch, 2008-07-04 22:28 Subject: can I configure git clone to preserve the '.git' when it makes the initial dir Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/p06240819c49453b4beda%40%5B192.168.1.105%5D ``` 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. -- - Stephen Bannasch Concord Consortium, http://www.concord.org ``` ## Stephan Beyer, 2008-07-04 23:22 Subject: Re: can I configure git clone to preserve the '.git' when it makes the initial dir Message-ID: <20080704232241.GD28515@leksak.fem-net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080704232241.GD28515%40leksak.fem-net In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, Stephen Bannasch wrote: > 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. 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.) > Is there a way to configure git clone to preserve the '.git' suffix when > creating a directory? I don't know a configuration for that, but you can simply do: git clone .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 -- Stephan Beyer , PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F ```