The constraint on passing both these options simultaneously has been present since long before clone was ported to C. At the time no configuration referencing the remote repository was written at all in bare clones. Since df61c88979 (clone: also configure url for bare clones, 2010-03-29) the remote repository is mentioned in the configuration file also for bare repos, so it makes sense to allow the user to rename it if they wish. Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Junio and Ævar, I investigated a bit more and updated the commit message accordingly. Instead of just removing the test I have replaced it with one that checks that the behavior is as intended. Ævar, I was a bit melodramatic when I wrote "especially useful". I have toned the commit message down a bit :-) In truth, I don't personally have a use-case for this (I did reach out to the person who asked about it in #git but did't get a reply) and have no problems with seeing this patch ultimately rejected. It's just a result of me seeing it asked about and getting an itch from it. But in my humble opinion this is now an "artificial" constraint (for lack of a better term) and should be removed on the grounds that there is no reason for it to be there in the first place. Thanks, Øsse builtin/clone.c | 3 --- t/t5606-clone-options.sh | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 66fe66679c..70ec72ea85 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c @@ -1014,9 +1014,6 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) option_bare = 1; if (option_bare) { - if (option_origin) - die(_("--bare and --origin %s options are incompatible."), - option_origin); if (real_git_dir) die(_("--bare and --separate-git-dir are incompatible.")); option_no_checkout = 1; diff --git a/t/t5606-clone-options.sh b/t/t5606-clone-options.sh index 3a595c0f82..c40dde816d 100755 --- a/t/t5606-clone-options.sh +++ b/t/t5606-clone-options.sh @@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ test_expect_success 'rejects invalid -o/--origin' ' ' -test_expect_success 'disallows --bare with --origin' ' - - test_must_fail git clone -o foo --bare parent clone-bare-o 2>err && - test_debug "cat err" && - test_i18ngrep -e "--bare and --origin foo options are incompatible" err +test_expect_success '--bare works with -o/--origin' ' + git clone --bare --origin=somewhere parent clone-bare && + url="$(git -C clone-bare config --local remote.somewhere.url)" && + test -n "$url" && + test_must_fail git -C clone-bare config --local remote.origin.url ' test_expect_success 'disallows --bare with --separate-git-dir' ' -- 2.27.0