2 Copyright (C) 2005, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
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19 from stgit.commands.common import *
20 from stgit.utils import *
21 from stgit import stack, git
23 help = 'Make a local clone of a remote repository'
24 usage = ['<repository> <dir>']
26 Clone a git repository into the local directory <dir> (using
27 stglink:clone[]) and initialise the local branch "master".
29 This operation is for example suitable to start working using the
30 "tracking branch" workflow (see link:stg[1]). Other means to setup
31 an StGit stack are stglink:init[] and the '--create' and '--clone'
32 commands of stglink:branch[].
34 The target directory <dir> will be created by this command, and must
39 directory = DirectoryAnywhere(needs_current_series = False)
41 def func(parser, options, args):
42 """Clone the <repository> into the local <dir> and initialises the
46 parser.error('incorrect number of arguments')
51 if os.path.exists(local_dir):
52 raise CmdException, '"%s" exists. Remove it first' % local_dir
54 print 'Cloning "%s" into "%s"...' % (repository, local_dir)
56 git.clone(repository, local_dir)
58 git.checkout(tree_id = 'HEAD')
60 # be sure to forget any cached value for .git, since we're going
61 # to work on a brand new repository