Re: Obscure error/warning/information message from git pull

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:23:23 +0100
>> 
>> > "git clone" makes a partial copy of a repository.  It does not
>> > duplicate it.  "Clone", as a verb, means "duplicate"; it never means
>> > "truncate".
>> 
>> If you do not want the upstream of the clone to be the original, then
>> use
>> 
>> git clone --mirror
>
> But that implies --bare, which means no working tree, right?  So I
> think this is not what Alan wants.

You can just clone into something like mymirror/.git and then edit the
"bare" flag in the config file.  Slightly ridiculous but workable.

-- 
David Kastrup