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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:31:54 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 1. The ability to clone into the current directory
> 
>    cg-clone had a -c option, which allowed cloning into the current
>    directory.  This is particularly useful, since I keep my common
>    dot files in a git repository, so all I need to do to set up a new
>    machine is to clone that git repository over my empty home directory.
> 
>    Native git doesn't have any equivalent, other than:
> 
>    git clone -n .... tmp
>    mv tmp/.git .
>    rm -rf tmp
>    git checkout HEAD

Well, it has:

	$ git init
	$ git remote add -f origin <url>
	$ git checkout -b master origin/master

If you really want to track /etc with Git, you can do that easily, and you 
can easily take the flak for a not-so-popular workflow.

Ciao,
Dscho