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

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Matthieu Moy wrote:

> I repeat the use-case I mentionned above :
> 
> ,----
> | a typical use-case is when I want to create a new project. I'd
> | like to initialize an empty bare repo on my backed up disk, and then
> | clone it to my local-fast-unreliable disk to get a working copy and do
> | the first commit there.
> `----
> 
> I find this quite natural, and up to now, no one gave me either a
> rationale not to do that,

The rationale is that current git just simply cannot do this.
You are welcome to add support for this corner case in git-clone,
or add git protocol extension for symref transfer.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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