From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cloning empty repo
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:01:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070624230157.GM17393@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467E8808.7030903@gentoo.org>
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org> wrote:
> is there any reason why cloning an empty repository should result in an error
> instead of a succesfully cloned empty repo?
There's nothing to clone. The repository is empty.
If you create a Git repository using `git init` and then create
another one also using `git init` then both repositories are empty,
and an empty repository is identical to every other empty repository.
So if you want to setup an empty repository and then clone nothing,
you actually can just setup another empty repository and configure
the 'origin' remote:
mkdir a; cd a; git init; cd ..
mkdir b; cd b; git init
# now a and b are identical
git remote add origin ../a/.git
# now b is a "clone" of a's nothingness...
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-24 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-24 15:04 cloning empty repo Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-06-24 23:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-06-28 1:32 ` Josh Triplett
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