[RFC] "clone --naked"?

> On 14 Jan 2006 at 15:39, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> [...]
>> BTW, I have been meaning to make this easier, by introducing a
>> new option to "git clone", like this:
> ...
> You must be over 21 to use --naked, however ;-)
> Maybe you find a better word.

> "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.DE> writes:
> 
> > On 14 Jan 2006 at 15:39, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >> BTW, I have been meaning to make this easier, by introducing a
> >> new option to "git clone", like this:
> > ...
> > You must be over 21 to use --naked, however ;-)
> > Maybe you find a better word.
> 
> Linus seems to use word "bare" sometimes.  Checking the git-core
> documentation, repository-layout documentation first used the
> word naked on Sep 1 2005, while there is no mention of "bare"
> repository anywhere.  Maybe "bare" is preferred?
> 
> I hope you do not mind my sending this message out to git list
> to take a quick poll.

> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > While I don't give a rats bottom about the "21"-ness of naked, "naked"
> > is more likely to trigger spam traps than "bare" though... just a side
> > consideration but unfortunately needed nowadays ;(
> 
> Yeah. I've had spamassassin kill patches to the aic7xxx driver because the 
> subject said "aic7xxx", and the "xxx" triggered as being a bad word.
> 
> Now, "naked" doesn't seem to trigger anything for spamassassin, but I 
> wouldn't be entirely surprised if some web-content blocker were to be 
> over-eager at times. So "bare" might be safer.
> 
> 		Linus
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users@linux.kernel.org
> http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/users

> "Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
> 
> > ...  My original intention was that I
> > thought them to be little descriptive regarding their
> > function.  You seem to have "--bare" and "--naked". Hard to
> > guess what they really do.
> 
> True.  "A repository without an associated working tree".  I do

> not know a short and sweet phrase to describe that (well, except
> "bare" and "naked", which I kind of already got used to).
> 
> Whatever word we choose to describe that, it should go to the
> glossary document.
> 

> On 17 Jan 2006 at 0:17, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> 
>>"Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
>>
>>
>>>...  My original intention was that I
>>>thought them to be little descriptive regarding their
>>>function.  You seem to have "--bare" and "--naked". Hard to
>>>guess what they really do.
>>
>>True.  "A repository without an associated working tree".  I do
> 
> 
> --rmo --repository-metadata-only?
> --sdf --sans-data-files?
> --rwwt (Repository Without Working Tree)?
> --qdr (Quick-and-Dirty Repository)?
>