cg-clone(1) - Linux man page

Name

cg-clone - clone a remote git repository

Synopsis

cg-clone [-l] [-s] LOCATION [DESTDIR]

Description

This clones a remote GIT repository and checks it out locally.

Takes a parameter specifying the location of the source repository and an optional second parameter specifying the destination. If the second parameter is omitted, the basename of the source repository is used as the destination.

Options

-l

Symlink the object database when cloning locally, instead of hardlinking all the objects. This is suitable for very fast cloning of arbitrarily big repositories, but might be a trouble in multi-user environments, and less solid arrangement in case you do dangerous things with the database. Also, disappeared or moved origin repository will obviously render this one unusable as well. The choice is yours. Note that you MUST NOT prune repository containing a symlink or being symlinked to.
-s: Clone in the current directory instead of creating a new one. Specifying both -s and a destination directory makes no sense.
-h, --help: Print usage summary.
--long-help: Print user manual. The same as found in gitlink:cg-clone[1].

Notes

If the clone has been interrupted for any reason, do not panic, calmly cd to the destination directory and run gitlink:cg-fetch[1], which will in this case restart the initial clone. Chances are that you will not actually download any duplicate data. (At the time of writing this, the chances aren't for the native git protocol and ssh, but this may change in the future).