Hi, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 1. The ability to clone into the current directory > > cg-clone had a -c option, which allowed cloning into the current > directory. This is particularly useful, since I keep my common > dot files in a git repository, so all I need to do to set up a new > machine is to clone that git repository over my empty home directory. > > Native git doesn't have any equivalent, other than: > > git clone -n .... tmp > mv tmp/.git . > rm -rf tmp > git checkout HEAD Well, it has: $ git init $ git remote add -f origin <url> $ git checkout -b master origin/master If you really want to track /etc with Git, you can do that easily, and you can easily take the flak for a not-so-popular workflow. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
