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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:39:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0901231439x1e20f06bka90a228a883681ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090123223740.GA11527@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 23:37, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> No, I don't mind success on cloning an empty repository. But I thought
> the issue at hand was that for some instances, we would report that we
> successfully created an empty repository, when in fact what happened was
> that we failed to clone a non-empty repository. And that that was
> fixable, but it was a problem with our code interfaces (which should be
> fixable) and not some fundamental limitation.

Ah, mhh, if that is the case then I'm afraid that's beyond me (at
least for now), someone else would have to do said refactoring first
:(.

> Or am I misunderstanding the situation?

I think you summarized it pretty well, if that is indeed what Junio meant.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-23 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23  0:07 [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-23  1:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-23  1:46   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-23  2:42     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-23  2:47       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-23  3:20         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-23 16:55           ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-23 20:05             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-23 22:32           ` Jeff King
2009-01-23 22:34             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-23 22:37               ` Jeff King
2009-01-23 22:39                 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-01-24  0:28                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-23 21:55       ` Mike Hommey
2009-01-24  0:26         ` http fixes, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-24  9:39           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-23 23:05       ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-24  0:33         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-24  0:42           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-25  0:49             ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-25  0:55               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-25  5:05                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-25 18:33                   ` Sverre Rabbelier

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