From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cloning an empty repository Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:39:56 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1232669252-21881-1-git-send-email-srabbelier@gmail.com> <7vwscm4xx0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090123223205.GA11491@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090123223740.GA11527@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 23 23:41:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LQUiK-0008Vn-NH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:41:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757146AbZAWWj7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:39:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756569AbZAWWj6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:39:58 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f21.google.com ([209.85.217.21]:58630 "EHLO mail-gx0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755552AbZAWWj6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:39:58 -0500 Received: by gxk14 with SMTP id 14so4506930gxk.13 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:39:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wCyCQDUcZeoKh9arigPviS84FOXEn9LqCefYCZ+/MNk=; b=OkEp7ytYWwAFKrL16INWOYgrb/mtQquvUg76vog12incVggJOiY0ETSQ+BtR1JELfF kERYLC+FnNC8OpEcZYWOK8rZPI8cL0wotp9Iu5wT7XWl3aFiXIFUWlYLMhWRiWOVbZR7 HqoAfZYkpOtke9/vVZy//Kv1LxYAPuwvji9WY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Y7w6PsEljd4P0qqGXcNcqICwGQayJGVcrMsQI4NhpqqahT7h6IDML5OqEPGa4hiij3 /X2jupAvjmpS1Lt9uPtvavaDmIP7wRLWGIkANywZZadBbtontWY+AXqdh2VFQ4isLY3J yKrnRPFQWUnJKaGfJ5iwS6z3/9DFa6emI5YsU= Received: by 10.151.46.3 with SMTP id y3mr1194192ybj.195.1232750396788; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:39:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090123223740.GA11527@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 203ab3dc2ce00019 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 23:37, Jeff King 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