Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

But I illustrated that cloning from an empty repository makes no sense.

And I, and others, illustrated the opposite.

There is a huge difference between calling somebody an idiot on the one 
side, and investing some time to help somebody who has a suboptimal 
workflow on the other one.

You didn't show me where my proposed flow was suboptimal.

But I fear that you took my help as a personal attack, and as a 
consequence you feel insulted, and I wasted my precious time.

Do you call _that_ "help"?

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| Last time I checked, those geneticists did not clone thin air.  They 
| always waited until they had something to clone.
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To me, this classifies either as "totally irrelevant remark", or as
"making fun of someone". Definitely not "help".

-- 
Matthieu