Re: [PATCH 10/10] clone: accept config options on the command line

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:10:33PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 17:57, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index b093e45..3e24064 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt

@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.

       Specify the directory from which templates will be used;
       (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)

+--config <key>=<value>::
+-c <key>=<value>::
+       Set a configuration variable in the newly-cloned repository. The

Shouldn't this be 'newly-created repository', because the
configuration variables are set before the actual cloning, but after
initializing the new repository.

Yeah, I think your wording is better. It might also make sense to
explicitly say that the config takes effect during the fetch and
checkout phases of the clone (there's otherwise no point, of course, but
it never hurts to make the documentation clear).

-Peff