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From: "Mike Gant" <mwgant@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git clone operation
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:27:18 -0600
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> Thanks for your responses. I appreciate you guys taking the time to answer.
>
> After thinking about this, I still don't understand when I clone a
> repo why I will
> get the equivalent of whatever branch is active at the time of cloning? What
> was the process that led to this design decision?
>
> So that also got me thinking about work flows with git. Because of the way clone
> works it seems that you wouldn't want someone to clone your every day "work"
> repository? So do developers generally have a separate repository that they push
> to and others can clone? This repository may have only a 'master' branch (but
> probably others I seem to recall Junio describing other branches in the main git
> repository). Is this a 'normal' work flow?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Gant
>

Also, I meant to add if the above work flow is the git way of
development, is this
the purpose of a bare repository?