Update the tutorial a bit
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1 #!/bin/sh
3 # Copyright (c) 2005, Linus Torvalds
4 # Copyright (c) 2005, Junio C Hamano
5 #
6 # Clone a repository into a different directory that does not yet exist.
8 usage() {
9 echo >&2 "* git clone [-l] <repo> <dir>"
10 exit 1
13 get_repo_base() {
14 (cd "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2> /dev/null
17 use_local=no
18 while
19 case "$#,$1" in
20 0,*) break ;;
21 *,-l|*,--l|*,--lo|*,--loc|*,--loca|*,--local) use_local=yes ;;
22 *,-*) usage ;;
23 *) break ;;
24 esac
26 shift
27 done
29 # Turn the source into an absolute path if
30 # it is local
31 repo="$1"
32 local=no
33 if base=$(get_repo_base "$repo"); then
34 repo="$base"
35 local=yes
38 dir="$2"
39 mkdir "$dir" &&
40 D=$(
41 (cd "$dir" && git-init-db && pwd)
42 ) &&
43 test -d "$D" || usage
45 # We do local magic only when the user tells us to.
46 case "$local,$use_local" in
47 yes,yes)
48 ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
49 repo="$repo/.git"
50 ( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
51 echo >&2 "-l flag seen but $repo is not local."
52 exit 1
56 # See if we can hardlink and drop "l" if not.
57 sample_file=$(cd "$repo" && \
58 find objects -type f -print | sed -e 1q)
60 # objects directory should not be empty since we are cloning!
61 test -f "$repo/$sample_file" || exit
64 if ln "$repo/$sample_file" "$D/.git/objects/sample" 2>/dev/null
65 then
66 l=l
67 fi &&
68 rm -f "$D/.git/objects/sample" &&
69 cp -r$l "$repo/objects" "$D/.git/" || exit 1
71 # Make a duplicate of refs and HEAD pointer
72 HEAD=
73 if test -f "$repo/HEAD"
74 then
75 HEAD=HEAD
77 tar Ccf "$repo" - refs $HEAD | tar Cxf "$D/.git" - || exit 1
78 exit 0
80 esac
82 case "$repo" in
83 rsync://*)
84 rsync -avz --ignore-existing "$repo/objects/" "$D/.git/objects/" &&
85 rsync -avz --ignore-existing "$repo/refs/" "$D/.git/refs/"
87 http://*)
88 echo "Somebody should add http fetch" >&2
89 exit 1
92 cd "$D" && git-clone-pack "$repo"
94 esac