From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Note about the meaning of "clone" Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:05:27 +0200 Message-ID: <200806151505.27686.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <20080614.150548.71104932.hanzl@noel.feld.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Vaclav Hanzl , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 15 15:10:24 2008 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 1K7rzz-0001E2-6j for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:10:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757380AbYFONI5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:08:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757376AbYFONI4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:08:56 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:18951 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752208AbYFONI4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:08:56 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41558026D9; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:08:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86xYE7MC5I7e; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.4] (unknown [10.9.0.4]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C61C8006AA; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:08:53 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Clarify that a clone is not an exact copy. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 7973e6a..c9bc627 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and by initializing `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. - ++ +*NOTE*: Although this command is called clone, the clone is not identical +in all respects. Local branches in the repository being cloned +becomes remote tracking branches in the clone and remote tracking +branches are not cloned at all. For security reasone the config sections +and triggers are not cloned either. OPTIONS ------- -- 1.5.5.1.178.g1f811