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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving "git remote add --mirror blah" functionality to
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:42:01 +0100 (BST)
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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