Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Linus Torvalds escreveu:

So current rule (and this is not new, it's always been true): the ONLY 
time you use "git init-db" is when you are going to start a totally new 
project. Never _ever_ otherwise. If you want to track another project, use 
"git clone".

Actually, only a 2 weeks ago, you suggested that I share the website
and main source code for my project in a single repository for reasons
of organization.

In this setup I find it logical to do

  git init-db
  git pull ..url.. website/master

to wind up with just the 5mb website, instead of the complete 70mb
of packed source code with all of its branches and tags.

It's not that it isn't typical, it's that you are using the wrong model. 
Maybe it's not well documented, I can easily give you that, but ALL your 
problems come from that fundamental starting point: you shouldn't have 
used "git init-db" in the first place.

Somebody want to document it?

Alternatively, we certainly _could_ make "git pull" just accept an empty 
git repo, and make it basically create the current branch.

Yes, I would like that.  


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