Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 11:26:28PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I know I could git-init in a empty directory
>
> You can also git init a non-empty directory.

I have a script to set up a new throwaway VM with my dotfiles using git.
It looks a bit like the following ($BRANCH != master):

 SSH="ssh $DEST"
 
 $SSH "cd; $GIT init"
 git push --receive-pack=$GIT-receive-pack $DEST:~/.git $BRANCH
 $SSH "
     $GIT pull . $BRANCH
     $GIT submodule update --init
 "

It relies on the ability to git init a non-empty directory.  $BRANCH can 
be master if you use the new updateInstead functionality in git 2.3.0, 
and you can use git pull from a remote location instead of the push/pull 
pair if that suits you better.
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