On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:27:53AM CET, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
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> put clone would be the putative inverse of clone, ie. make a clone of
> a local repository on a remote server.

So effectively to tell git push not to unpack on the remote side, and to
push all branches and relevant tags.

..snip..
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> It's more logical for clone to either
> 
>  * leave all names unchanged
> 
>  * put all remote branches into a subdirectory.  This would also make
>    it easier to track branches from multiple servers.
> 
>    At present,  I have in my build-daemon the following branches,
> 
> 	cvs-head-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	hanwen-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	hwn-jcn-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_1_0-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_1_2-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_1_4-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_1_6-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_1_8-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_0-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_2-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_3_2b-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_3_5b-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_4-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_6-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	lilypond_2_8-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	master-git.sv.gnu.org-lilypond.git
> 	master-hanwen
> 	master-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	origin-repo.or.cz-lilypond.git
> 	stable
> 	stable-2.10
> 	stable--2.10-git.sv.gnu.org-lilypond.git
> 
>   It would solve lots of problems for me if cloning and fetching would
>   put branches into a subdirectory, ie.
> 
>     git clone git://repo.or.cz/lilypond.git
> 
>   leads to branches
> 
>     repo.or.cz/lilypond_2_8
>     repo.or.cz/lilypond_2_6
>     repo.or.cz/lilypond_2_4
>     repo.or.cz/master
>      (etc..)

That's basically exactly what git clone --use-separate-remote should do.
Now only if it would become the default... :-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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