This changes the behaviour of cloning from a repository on the
local machine, by defaulting to "-l" (use hardlinks to share
files under .git/objects) and making "-l" a no-op. A new
option, --no-hardlinks, is also added to cause file-level copy
of files under .git/objects while still avoiding the normal
"pack to pipe, then receive and index pack" network transfer
overhead. The old behaviour of local cloning without -l nor -s
is availble by specifying the source repository with the newly
introduced file:///path/to/repo.git/ syntax (i.e. "same as
network" cloning).
* With --no-hardlinks (i.e. have all .git/objects/ copied via
cpio) would not catch the source repository corruption, and
also risks corrupted recipient repository if an
alpha-particle hits memory cell while indexing and resolving
deltas. As long as the recipient is created uncorrupted, you
have a good back-up.
* same-as-network is expensive, but it would catch the breakage
of the source repository. It still risks corrupted recipient
repository due to hardware failure. As long as the recipient
is created uncorrupted, you have a good back-up.
* The new default on the same filesystem, as long as the source
repository is healthy, it is very likely that the recipient
would be, too. Also it is very cheap. You do not get any
back-up benefit, though.
None of the method is resilient against the source repository
corruption, so let's discount that from the comparison. Then
the difference with and without --no-hardlinks matters primarily
if you value the back-up benefit or not. If you want to use the
cloned repository as a back-up, then it is cheaper to do a clone
with --no-hardlinks and two git-fsck (source before clone,
recipient after clone) than same-as-network clone, especially as
you are likely to do a git-fsck on the recipient if you are so
paranoid anyway.
Which leads me to believe that being able to use file:/// is
probably a good idea, if only for testability, but probably of
little practical value. We default to hardlinked clone for
everyday use, and paranoids can use --no-hardlinks as a way to
make a back-up.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document that '--message=<msg>' is long version of '-m <msg>' in
git-commit, and that '--no-checkout' is long version of '-n' in
git-clone.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since git-clone is one of the many commands taking
URLs to remote repositories as an argument, it should include
the URL-types list from urls.txt.
Split up urls.txt into urls.txt and urls-remotes.txt. The latter
should be used by anything besides git-clone where a discussion of
using .git/config and .git/remotes/ to name URLs just doesn't make
as much sense.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb is inconsistent.
For example, "Add" vs "Creates". It is customary to use imperative for
command description.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation advertises the new `--depth <n>' parameter with an equal
sign, while the usage notes (shown after `git-clone --help') do not. If I
understood git-clone's source code correctly, the version without the
equal sign is correct, which is why this patch syncs documentation to the
usage note.
Signed-off-by: Christian Schlotter <schlotter@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository,
git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's
"master"
branch. This patch describes the actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix a couple remaining references to the origin branch.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Finally.
The separate-remote layout is so much more organized than
traditional and easier to work with especially when you need to
deal with remote repositories with multiple branches and/or you
need to deal with more than one remote repositories, and using
traditional layout for new repositories simply does not make
much sense.
Internally we still have code for 1:1 mappings to create a bare
clone; that is a good thing and will not go away.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When --use-separate-remote is used on git-clone, the remote
heads are saved under $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin/, not
"$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin/"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update git-clone man page to reflect recent changes
(--use-separate-remote default and use of .git/config instead of
remotes files), and rewrite introduction.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With making --use-separate-remote default when creating non-bare
clone, there was need for the flag which would turn off this behavior.
It was called --use-immingled-remote.
Immingle means to blend, to combine into one, to intermingle, but it
is a bit obscure word. I think it would be better to use simply
--no-separate-remote as the opposite to --use-separate-remote
option to git clone.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've talked about this for quite some time on the list, and it
is a sane thing to do for a repository with an associcated
working tree.
For somebody who wants to use the traditional layout, there is a
backward compatibility option --use-immingled-remote, but it is
expected to be removed before the next major release.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The program is not used by git-clone since git-fetch-pack was extended
to allow its caller do what git-clone-pack alone did, and git-clone was
updated to use it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Move incorrect asciidoc level 2 titles back to level 1.
Show output of git-name-rev in man page example.
Reword sentences that begin with a period (.) in asciidoc
numbered lists to work around conversion to man page bug.
Mention that git-repack now calls git-prune-packed
when the -d option is passed to it.
[imap] section headers in the config file example need to be
contained in a literal block. imap.pass is the proper config
file variable to use, not imap.password.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new --reference flag introduced to git-clone in
GIT 1.3.0 was not documented but is rather handy.
So document it.
Also corrected a minor issue with the documentation for the
-s flag; the info/alternates file name was spelled wrong.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new option --naked is to help creating a naked repository
for public consumption.
$ git clone -l -s --naked \
/pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git subproj-2.6.git
is equivalent to this sequence:
$ git clone -l -s -n /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git temp
$ mv temp/.git subproj-2.6.git
$ rmdir temp
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Earlier, git-clone stored upstream's master in the branch named 'origin',
possibly overwriting an existing such branch.
Now you can change it by calling git-clone with '-o <other_name>'.
[jc: added ref format check, subdirectory safety, documentation
and usage string.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this patch the following commands all clone into the local directory
"repo". If repo exists, it will still barf.
git-clone git://host.xz/repo.git
git-clone /path/to/repo/.git
git-clone host.xz:repo.git
I ended up doing the same source-to-target sed'ing for all our company
projects, so it was easier to add it directly to git-clone.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This implements the idea Daniel Barkalow came up with, to match
the remotes/origin created by clone by default to the workflow I
use myself in my guinea pig repository, to have me eat my own
dog food.
We probably would want to use either .git/refs/local/heads/*
(idea by Linus) or .git/refs/heads/origin/* instead to reduce
the local ref namespace pollution.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Josef Weidendorfer points out that git-clone documentation does not
mention the initial copying of remote branch heads into corresponding
local branches. Also clarify the purpose of the ref mappings description
in the "remotes" file and recommended workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version of the git
commands. Adapt the remaining offenders.
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation for git-clone is behind the actual command.
I have been getting tired of reading the shell script to see
what the arguments are so here is an update of the actual documentation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederman@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:
perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
README Documentation/*.txt
perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
README Documentation/*.txt
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
