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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to "git clone --bare --origin=blah"
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:42:01 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804232340310.26553@eeepc-johanness> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzhsqlfi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It seems useless to have an option in "git remote add" just because it 
> > might be necessary in a future refactoring of "git clone", but without 
> > a good use case beside that one.
> 
> Ooo.  But I think that's the other way around.

I think it is very much the other way round.  "git remote add" is meant 
for adding _additional_ remotes.  "git clone" just _happens_ to install an 
"origin" remote.

I even have a case where I used "--mirror" _twice_ in the same, _non_-bare 
repository.  It has merit, you know?

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-23  8:28 [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to "git clone --bare --origin=blah" Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-23  9:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-23 16:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-23 16:56   ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-04-23 22:25     ` Jeff King
2008-04-23 20:06   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-04-23 22:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-23 22:42       ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-04-24  6:23       ` Paolo Bonzini

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