Re: git help: how to "checkout" silently?
Peter Baumann <siprbaum@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> schrieb:
> Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> schrieb:
>>
>> --OJWLbGElk4npXSe3
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
>> Content-Disposition: inline
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>>
>> For the purpose of various i18n tasks, I have a few scripts that check
>> the GIT repository out.
>>
>> These sripts give a lot of output (see below). Is there some magic way
>> to make this entirely silent (except stderr output)=A0?
>>
>> This is basically the output of a "git clone.....". Maybe another
>> command would be better suited?
>>
>
> Do you reclone everytime? Why not just update your existing clone with
> git-fetch (or git-pull, which will also update your working directory if it
> is clean; but git-pull should only be run by cron if you didn't do any
> development in this repo and you are just tracking what happens upstream).
>
> But notice that it will give you very much the same output as the clone, but
> there was currently something merged into the master branch on git.git to
> prevent this [1]. (After looking on the patch it seems to work only for
> the native git proctocoll, but see below)
>
> One question, why do you use http for fetching/cloning? I'm not sure that on
> alioth the native git protocol for annonymous is activated ([2] doesn't
> mention it), but it is _way_ more efficient. Especially if someone repacks
> the repository you have to download the _whole_ repo again, although you
> already have every object. At least git+ssh works, so you could use git
> over ssh to transfer the objects efficently if you have an account on
> alioth.
>
After double checking and asking on irc I can confirm that alioth has
anonymous git protocol enabled. I even updated the wiki page
http://wiki.debian.org/AliothGit because it didn't mention the git
protocoll.
Regards,
Peter Baumann
> [1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=3ddad98b74924d76116d05e7601ab1e163d68500
> [2]: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/git-usage
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