On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:20:43 +0200, Hallvard Furuseth wrote:
> On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:09:15 -0000, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 03 May 2012 14:23:59 +0200, Hallvard Furuseth wrote:
>>
>>> I mean 'git clone --bare bar.git foo.git' does not give foo.git
>>> a remote named 'origin' with a branch origin/master. Not sure
>>> if there is a _simple_ way to do it well either. init + fetch
>>> above does not try to hardlink objects/packs like clone does.
>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>> $ git init bar.git; cd bar.git
>>>> $ echo a > a; git add a; git commit -m a; cd ..
>>>> $ git clone --bare bar.git foo.git; cd foo.git
>>>
>>> $ git branch -a
>>> * master
>>
>> From `git help clone':
>>
>> --bare
>> Make a bare GIT repository. That is, instead of creating
>> <directory> and placing the administrative files in
>> <directory>/.git, make the <directory> itself the $GIT_DIR.
>> This obviously implies the -n because there is nowhere to
>> check out the working tree. Also the branch heads at the
>> remote are copied directly to corresponding local branch
>> heads, without mapping them to refs/remotes/origin/. When
>> this option is used, neither remote-tracking branches nor the
>> related configuration variables are created.
>
> Yes, I know. I just don't know why.
I imagine that the purpose behind a bare repository is really just to
provide a repository into which objects may be pushed and from which
objects may be fetched, and that's it; it's sole purpose is to act
as a point of communication. Cloning a repository with --bare is
meant to simplify the task of setting up a bare repository with
some initial content.
Fortunately, we're talking about the history of a revision control
system. I found this with `git blame -L70,76 71821351^ git-clone.txt':
commit 4fb66a62eeb7bfec115cd0058d7a05ab62fc23e7
Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jan 22 17:27:52 2006 -0800
clone: do not create remotes/origin nor origin branch in a bare repository.
It is simply pointless, since no merges will ever happen in such
a repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx>
That certainly corroborates the limited purpose of a bare repository.
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