From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:28:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83bno7dv0x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114180521.GA3168@acm.acm> <20141114230235.GF3168@acm.acm> <87lhncoqrp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83389khn1g.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9y0omii.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vbmgg57x.fsf@gnu.org> <878ujcoj0k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141115120506.GA3581@acm.acm> <87r3x4mszs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141115195736.GB3378@acm.acm> <87fvdjlcs4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416151773 29902 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 15:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 16:29:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq1lU-0001Nm-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:29:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq1lU-0003iV-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq1lL-0003hJ-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq1lF-0003sm-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:44097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq1l5-0003rf-7w; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:28:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF500B000X4TR00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:21:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF5003NV1BMIG90@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:21:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87fvdjlcs4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177309 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:23:23 +0100 > > > "git clone" makes a partial copy of a repository. It does not > > duplicate it. "Clone", as a verb, means "duplicate"; it never means > > "truncate". > > If you do not want the upstream of the clone to be the original, then > use > > git clone --mirror But that implies --bare, which means no working tree, right? So I think this is not what Alan wants.