From: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git clone NonExistentLocation
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:52:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5D1A04.4090107@atlas-elektronik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5D1715.5020707@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On 2/17/2011 1:39 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>
> It is useful, and it even gives you a warning that it still might not be
> what you intended. Would be funny if it were accidental. Indeed, a git
> "log -S" on that warning reveals that it was introduced intentionally in
>
> 86ac751 (Allow cloning an empty repository, 2009-01-23)
OK. But that's about 'cloning an empty repository'.
'NonExistentLocation' is not empty initially - it simply does
not exist.
Contrast that to 'git clone http://url.does.not.exist'. You don't
get an empty repository in 'url.does.not.exist' after running that.
Regards,
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-17 9:01 git clone NonExistentLocation Stefan Naewe
2011-02-17 12:39 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 12:52 ` Stefan Naewe [this message]
2011-02-17 12:59 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-17 14:03 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-17 16:53 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-18 4:01 ` Jeff King
2011-02-18 6:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-18 6:11 ` Jeff King
2011-02-18 10:16 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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