On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 08:26:33AM -0800, W. Trevor King wrote: > That's going to create ~/.nmbug/.git though, if we want to preserve > the current bare-style ~/.nmbug/ layout, we'd need something like: > > $ TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) > $ git clone --no-checkout --separate-git-dir=~/.nmbug \ > > http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git "${TEMPDIR}/nmbug" > $ rm -rf "${TEMPDIR}" Ah, we'd also want to remove the worktree link to the ephemeral "${TEMPDIR}" with: $ git config --unset core.worktree Cheers, Trevor -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy