On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:56:52 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com
wrote:
However perhaps an interesting generalization of this would be
something like a post-clone hook, obviously you couldn't store that in
.git/hooks/ like other githooks(5) since there's no repo yet, but
having it
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com writes:
As others have indicated here this feature is really specific to a
single lint-like use-case and doesn't belong in clone as a built-in
feature.
However perhaps an interesting generalization of this would be
something like a post-clone hook,
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:06:33PM -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is
no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses)
and terms of service
Junio C Hamano:
An open source hosting site can help better by checking at the
project creation time, because the people who interact with that
interface are solely in the position to set and publish licensing terms.
That doesn't help with the many projects that have *already* been
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM, David A. Wheeler dwhee...@dwheeler.com wrote:
Junio C Hamano:
An approach that checks only the top-level directory for fixed
filename pattern would not be an effective way to protect the
cloners, either.
I disagree, I think it's remarkably effective.
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:06 PM, David A. Wheeler dwhee...@dwheeler.com wrote:
Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is
no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses)
and terms
On za, 2015-03-21 at 14:06 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is
no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses)
and terms of service apply - and
Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is
no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses)
and terms of service apply - and the cloner may not be expecting that.
Many projects
On 21.03.2015 13:21, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
On za, 2015-03-21 at 14:06 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is
no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which
Stefan Beller stefanbel...@gmail.com writes:
To spin this further it would be interesting to have
a server advertisement during git clone which indicates
if this setting is recommended to be set.
Then hosting sites popular in the open source world such as
github could enable this feature,
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