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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Claire Fousse <claire.fousse@ensimag.imag.fr>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Sylvain Boulme <Sylvain.Boulme@imag.fr>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] clone: accept config options on the command line
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:12:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110609171214.GA30888@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinBqSVpREg6667Ydf2JjL3r14BgRA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 17:57, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> > index b093e45..3e24064 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> > @@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
> >        Specify the directory from which templates will be used;
> >        (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
> >
> > +--config <key>=<value>::
> > +-c <key>=<value>::
> > +       Set a configuration variable in the newly-cloned repository. The
> 
> Shouldn't this be 'newly-created repository', because the
> configuration variables are set before the actual cloning, but after
> initializing the new repository.

Yeah, I think your wording is better. It might also make sense to
explicitly say that the config takes effect during the fetch and
checkout phases of the clone (there's otherwise no point, of course, but
it never hurts to make the documentation clear).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-09 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-08 11:19 Git-Mediawiki : cloning a set of pages Claire Fousse
2011-06-08 15:19 ` Jeff King
2011-06-08 17:04   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-06-08 17:13     ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:50   ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:51     ` [PATCH 01/10] strbuf_split: add a max parameter Jeff King
2011-06-13 17:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 19:20         ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:51     ` [PATCH 02/10] fix "git -c" parsing of values with equals signs Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:52     ` [PATCH 03/10] config: die on error in command-line config Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:52     ` [PATCH 04/10] config: avoid segfault when parsing " Jeff King
2011-06-13 17:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 19:22         ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:54     ` [PATCH 05/10] strbuf: allow strbuf_split to work on non-strbufs Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:55     ` [PATCH 06/10] config: use strbuf_split_str instead of a temporary strbuf Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:55     ` [PATCH 07/10] parse-options: add OPT_STRING_LIST helper Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:55     ` [PATCH 08/10] remote: use new OPT_STRING_LIST Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:56     ` [PATCH 09/10] config: make git_config_parse_parameter a public function Jeff King
2011-06-09 15:57     ` [PATCH 10/10] clone: accept config options on the command line Jeff King
2011-06-09 17:10       ` Bert Wesarg
2011-06-09 17:12         ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-06-09 20:56           ` Jeff King
2011-06-09 22:34       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-06-08 17:14 ` Git-Mediawiki : cloning a set of pages Jakub Narebski
2011-06-09  9:06   ` Claire Fousse

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