I've just finished cruising the Google search results that contain all the email rants about how stupid it is that git can't clone an empty repository. Some kind soul even submitted a patch. Until git is upgraded, what is the simplest, most straightforward method to clone an empty, bare git repository?
The ideal solution will support ...
How can I convert a 'normal' Git repository to a bare one?
The main difference seems to be:
in the normal git repository you have a .git folder inside the repository containing all relevant data and all other files build your working copy
in a bar Git repository, there is no working copy and the folder (let's call it repo.git) contain...
This question got me thinking about bare strings.
When PHP sees a string that's not enclosed in quotes, it first checks to see if it's a constant. If not, it just assumes it's a string and goes on anyway. So for example if I have
echo $foo[bar];
If there's a constant called bar it uses that for the array key, but if not then it treat...