Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 11:26:28PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I know I could git-init in a empty directory
>
>You can also git init a non-empty directory.

I have a script to set up a new throwaway VM with my dotfiles using git.
It looks a bit like the following ($BRANCH != master):

  SSH="ssh $DEST"
  
  $SSH "cd; $GIT init"
  git push --receive-pack=$GIT-receive-pack $DEST:~/.git $BRANCH
  $SSH "
      $GIT pull . $BRANCH
      $GIT submodule update --init
  "

It relies on the ability to git init a non-empty directory.  $BRANCH can 
be master if you use the new updateInstead functionality in git 2.3.0, 
and you can use git pull from a remote location instead of the push/pull 
pair if that suits you better.
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