Kyle,
Thanks, I suppose that works well enough for my needs. I wasn't aware
that aliases were that flexible in git.
I also have no problem to git-init and do all the other steps manually.
Thanks,
Diego
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2015, at 17:53, Diego Viola wrote:
>>
>> Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about:
>>
>> $ mkdir non-empty-dir
>> $ cd non-empty-dir
>> $ touch foo bar baz
>> $ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git .
>> $ git status
>> On branch master
>> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
>> Untracked files:
>> (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>>
>> bar
>> baz
>> foo
>>
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to
>> track)
>
>
> Have you considered using an alias?
>
> git config --global alias.irfc \
> '!sh -c '\''git init && git remote add origin "$1" && git fetch && git
> checkout "${2:-master}"'\'' sh'
>
> (You'll likely have to carefully unwrap that line above.)
>
> Then you get
>
> git irfc <URL> [<branch>]
>
> where <branch> defaults to master.
> So your scenario would become just:
>
>
>
> $ mkdir non-empty-dir
> $ cd non-empty-dir
> $ touch foo bar baz
> $ git irfc url:user/dotfiles.git
> $ git status
> On branch master
> Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
> Untracked files:
> (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>
> bar
> baz
> foo
>
> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
>
> -Kyle
>
> P.S. irfc = init, remote, fetch, checkout. But do make up a better name. :)
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