Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
Kyle,
Thanks, I suppose that works well enough for my needs. I wasn't aware
that aliases were that flexible in git.
I also have no problem to git-init and do all the other steps manually.
Thanks,
Diego
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Kyle J. McKay mack...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 7, 2015, at 17:53, Diego Viola wrote:
Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about:
$ mkdir non-empty-dir
$ cd non-empty-dir
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git .
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
(use git add file... to include in what will be committed)
bar
baz
foo
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use git add to
track)
Have you considered using an alias?
git config --global alias.irfc \
'!sh -c '\''git init git remote add origin $1 git fetch git
checkout ${2:-master}'\'' sh'
(You'll likely have to carefully unwrap that line above.)
Then you get
git irfc URL [branch]
where branch defaults to master.
So your scenario would become just:
$ mkdir non-empty-dir
$ cd non-empty-dir
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git irfc url:user/dotfiles.git
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
(use git add file... to include in what will be committed)
bar
baz
foo
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use git add to track)
-Kyle
P.S. irfc = init, remote, fetch, checkout. But do make up a better name. :)
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Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 11:26:28PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com writes: I know I could git-init in a empty directory You can also git init a non-empty directory. I have a script to set up a new throwaway VM with my dotfiles using git. It looks a bit like the following ($BRANCH != master): SSH=ssh $DEST $SSH cd; $GIT init git push --receive-pack=$GIT-receive-pack $DEST:~/.git $BRANCH $SSH $GIT pull . $BRANCH $GIT submodule update --init It relies on the ability to git init a non-empty directory. $BRANCH can be master if you use the new updateInstead functionality in git 2.3.0, and you can use git pull from a remote location instead of the push/pull pair if that suits you better. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
Sorry, I wanted to say: I know I can git-clone in a empty directory and then move the files over to $HOME. I know I can git init in a non-empty directory. :-) Thanks, Diego On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote: Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com writes: I know I could git-init in a empty directory You can also git init a non-empty directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 And now for something completely different. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
Hello, I was thinking about creating a new repository in my home dir so that I could keep my dot files in it. However, I found that I can't do a `git clone url:user/repo.git .` in a non-empty directory. Is there a possibility of implementing a -f switch to git-clone so that when I use that, git would still clone the repo in the non-empty directory and keep the untracked files untracked/unstaged? (just as if I copied files to the git repo). I know I could git-init in a empty directory and then copy the .git dir to the non-empty directory as a workaround, but I like the idea of cloning better. My C skills aren't that great or I would have sent a patch already. Thanks, Diego -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com writes: I know I could git-init in a empty directory You can also git init a non-empty directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 And now for something completely different. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about: $ mkdir non-empty-dir $ cd non-empty-dir $ touch foo bar baz $ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git . $ git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Untracked files: (use git add file... to include in what will be committed) bar baz foo nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use git add to track) On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I wanted to say: I know I can git-clone in a empty directory and then move the files over to $HOME. I know I can git init in a non-empty directory. :-) Thanks, Diego On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote: Diego Viola diego.vi...@gmail.com writes: I know I could git-init in a empty directory You can also git init a non-empty directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 And now for something completely different. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)
On Mar 7, 2015, at 17:53, Diego Viola wrote:
Something like this is the scenario I'm talking about:
$ mkdir non-empty-dir
$ cd non-empty-dir
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git clone -f url:user/dotfiles.git .
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
(use git add file... to include in what will be committed)
bar
baz
foo
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use git add
to track)
Have you considered using an alias?
git config --global alias.irfc \
'!sh -c '\''git init git remote add origin $1 git fetch
git checkout ${2:-master}'\'' sh'
(You'll likely have to carefully unwrap that line above.)
Then you get
git irfc URL [branch]
where branch defaults to master.
So your scenario would become just:
$ mkdir non-empty-dir
$ cd non-empty-dir
$ touch foo bar baz
$ git irfc url:user/dotfiles.git
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Untracked files:
(use git add file... to include in what will be committed)
bar
baz
foo
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use git add to
track)
-Kyle
P.S. irfc = init, remote, fetch, checkout. But do make up a better
name. :)
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