From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:47:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87389jkv00.fsf@fencepost.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> <83bno7dv0x.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416152937 14779 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 15:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 16:48:50 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 1Xq24I-0008QN-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:48:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq24H-0000wt-Oj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:48:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq24E-0000wl-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq24D-0002ca-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43252) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq24D-0002cV-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50428 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq24C-0007Kj-Qj; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 72C73E05D9; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:47:27 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <83bno7dv0x.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:28:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:177311 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. You can just clone into something like mymirror/.git and then edit the "bare" flag in the config file. Slightly ridiculous but workable. -- David Kastrup