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Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

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To: Brian Gernhardt <benji@...>
Cc: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@...>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...>, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>, Bill Lear <rael@...>, Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@...>, <git@...>
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 5:48 pm

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:


An implementation of that would probably need to special-case the
empty repository. But an empty repository is already a special case.
HEAD already points to master, and master is already hardcoded here:

$ cat .git/HEAD 
ref: refs/heads/master

So, it's possible for HEAD to point to a branch which doesn't exist
yet, it's possible to commit to a branch which doesn't exist yet. It
would make sense to extend that to allow a remote to point to a branch
which doesn't exist either.

But don't get me wrong: I probably won't implement that myself, so I
can't _ask_ people to do it for me. I would just appreciate if people
stopped calling me (and other users interested in a sane empty clone
behavior) idiot because I think it would make sense to do it.

-- 
Matthieu
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What is the idea for bare repositories?, David Kastrup, (Mon Nov 12, 9:11 am)
Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?, Bruno Cesar Ribas, (Mon Nov 12, 9:19 am)
Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Nov 12, 9:57 am)
Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?, Jan Wielemaker, (Mon Nov 12, 12:19 pm)
Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bar..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Nov 12, 12:34 pm)
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Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Nov 12, 1:54 pm)
Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Nov 12, 1:30 pm)
Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Nov 12, 1:57 pm)
Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Nov 12, 2:06 pm)
Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 15, 8:44 am)
Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Nov 14, 4:58 pm)
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Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Nov 13, 7:19 am)
Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for..., Matthieu Moy, (Tue Nov 13, 5:48 pm)
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Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?, David Tweed, (Mon Nov 12, 10:20 am)
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