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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git-Mediawiki : cloning a set of pages
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:04:27 +0200
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Heya,

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 17:19, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Maybe it would be even simpler and more flexible to give clone a "-c"
> flag that writes specific config variables in the newly-created
> repository.

This makes a lot of sense. What about a use case like git-svn supports
currently, where you want to indicate "use the default
trunk/branches/tags setup"? Yes, you could do `git clone -c defaults
svn://example.com` and then git-remote-svn can set the relevant config
options itself. The only downside is that git-remote-svn then needs to
unset 'defaults' and set the appropriate values itself (to avoid
cluttering the config file). Thoughts?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier