1git-clone-script(1) 2=================== 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-clone-script - Clones a repository. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git clone' [-l] [-u <upload-pack>] [-q] <repository> <directory> 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Clones a repository into a newly created directory. 17 18OPTIONS 19------- 20-l:: 21 When the repository to clone from is on a local machine, 22 this flag bypasses normal "git aware" transport 23 mechanism and clones the repository by making a copy of 24 HEAD and everything under objects and refs directories. 25 The files under .git/objects/ directory are hardlinked 26 to save space when possible. 27 28-q:: 29 Operate quietly. This flag is passed to "rsync" and 30 "git-clone-pack" commands when given. 31 32-u <upload-pack>:: 33 When given, and the repository to clone from is handled 34 by 'git-clone-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to 35 the command to specify non-default path for the command 36 run on the other end. 37 38<repository>:: 39 The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. It can 40 be an "rsync://host/dir" URL, an "http://host/dir" URL, 41 or [<host>:]/dir notation that is used by 'git-clone-pack'. 42 Currently http transport is not supported. 43 44<directory>:: 45 The name of a new directory to be cloned into. It is an 46 error to specify an existing directory. 47 48Author 49------ 50Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 51 52Documentation 53-------------- 54Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 55 56 57GIT 58--- 59Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 60