Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-08 Thread Diego Viola
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

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread brian m. carlson
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

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Diego Viola
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:

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
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

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Diego Viola
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

Re: Please consider adding a -f switch to git-clone (or something similar)

2015-03-07 Thread Kyle J. McKay
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: