From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories? Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:24:05 -0600 Message-ID: <18232.35893.243300.179076@lisa.zopyra.com> References: <86k5on8v6p.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20071112131927.GA1701@c3sl.ufpr.br> <200711121719.54146.wielemak@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthieu Moy , Jan Wielemaker , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 12 18:24:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ird1O-0006r3-LQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:24:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759224AbXKLRYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:24:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759201AbXKLRYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:24:10 -0500 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:60147 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758070AbXKLRYJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:24:09 -0500 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id lACHO6q07873; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:24:06 -0600 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Monday, November 12, 2007 at 17:15:51 (+0000) Johannes Schindelin writes: >Hi, > >On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin writes: >> >> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote: >> > >> >> I found out that cloning a empty bare repository produces nothing at >> >> all, [...] >> > >> > If they are empty, what exactly do you mean to clone? >> >> I'd expect an empty repository, with the git remote configured >> correctly. > >Yeah, right. > >Last time I checked, those geneticists did not clone thin air. They >always waited until they had something to clone. We have wanted this behavior; I don't think it's so foolish. We have an administrator create a new bare repo for us, and we populate it by pushing into it. It wold be nice if the administrator could create a bare repo and we could clone from it, and push to it to populate it, instead of cloning the bare repo from another repo that has already been (partly) populated. Bill