From 3711d1cd8984d69b61b3a3626aa88ba52fa32d48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quentin Nerden Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 07:37:40 -0700 Subject: docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options To make the doc of git-clone easier to read, refer to the long form of the options (it is easier to guess what '--verbose' is doing than '-v'). Signed-off-by: Quentin Nerden Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index a0f14b51f2..f5db33e885 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository -(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an +(visible using `git branch --remotes`), and creates and checks out an initial branch that is forked from the cloned repository's currently active branch. @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ which automatically call `git gc --auto`. (See linkgit:git-gc[1].) If these objects are removed and were referenced by the cloned repository, then the cloned repository will become corrupt. + -Note that running `git repack` without the `-l` option in a repository -cloned with `-s` will copy objects from the source repository into a pack -in the cloned repository, removing the disk space savings of `clone -s`. -It is safe, however, to run `git gc`, which uses the `-l` option by +Note that running `git repack` without the `--local` option in a repository +cloned with `--shared` will copy objects from the source repository into a pack +in the cloned repository, removing the disk space savings of `clone --shared`. +It is safe, however, to run `git gc`, which uses the `--local` option by default. + -If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `-s` on +If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `--shared` on its source repository, you can simply run `git repack -a` to copy all objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --progress:: Progress status is reported on the standard error stream - by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless -q + by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless `--quiet` is specified. This flag forces progress status even if the standard error stream is not directed to a terminal. @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. Make a 'bare' Git repository. That is, instead of creating `` and placing the administrative files in `/.git`, make the `` - itself the `$GIT_DIR`. This obviously implies the `-n` + itself the `$GIT_DIR`. This obviously implies the `--no-checkout` because there is nowhere to check out the working tree. Also the branch heads at the remote are copied directly to corresponding local branch heads, without mapping -- cgit v1.2.3