On Fri, Jun 16 2017, SZEDER Gábor jotted: > Due to limitations/bugs in the current implementation, some > configuration variables specified via 'git clone -c var=val' (or 'git > -c var=val clone') are ignored during the initial fetch and checkout. > > Let the users know which configuration variables are known to be > ignored ('remote.origin.mirror' and 'remote.origin.tagOpt') under the > documentation of 'git clone -c'. > > Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/git-clone.txt | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt > index ec41d3d69..5ceccb258 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt > @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. > values are given for the same key, each value will be written to > the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add > additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote. > ++ > +Due to limitations if the current implementation, some configuration > +variables do not take effect until after the initial fetch and checkout. > +Configuration variables known to not take effect are: > +`remote.<name>.mirror` and `remote.<name>.tagOpt`. > > --depth <depth>:: > Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the Just so we're all on the same page, in CACBZZX740rcQKnfkRXgn0+fmeUDaWL-Kz5WzKeyUvBhXWPwPhg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx I had the feedback that this patch didn't make sense on top of 2.13.0 since we have --no-tags now which should be documented here, but you replied in CAM0VKjmz7MpVt3oPBuwHiXNoLkZmdmrZ66ggk+aY5-4oVkE35A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx in an answer I understood to mean that this was a patch not meant for master, but for the main track. But this is now cooking in pu, Junio: is it clear that this patchu as-cooking ideally shouldn't land in next/master without the fix on top which I mentioned in my mail above? I can just submit that as a patch on top, but I'm confused about the current state with this cooking in pu, so I thought I'd ask first how this should be handled.