(adc fork) fork is now fast and space-efficient on the server

uses "git clone -l" then manually sets up the gl-creater and hooks

(thanks to Jeff and the kde gang for asking ;-)

contrib/adc/fork

@@ -5,18 +5,16 @@ to=$2
 
 . $(dirname $0)/adc.common-functions
 
-# we cannot just say "cd $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS; git clone $from.git $to.git".  That
-# won't set up the hooks or the gl-creater file that gitolite needs.  So we now
-# have a new "git-init" command!
-
 get_rights_and_owner $from
 [ -z "$perm_read" ] && die "no read permissions on $from"
 
 get_rights_and_owner $to
 [ -z "$perm_create" ] && die "no create permissions on $to"
 
-# let gitolite create the repo first
+# clone $from to $to
-SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND="git-init '$to'" $GL_BINDIR/gl-auth-command $GL_USER
+git clone --bare -l $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS/$from.git $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS/$to.git
-# then copy the refs from $from
+
+# fix up creator, and hooks
 cd $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS/$to.git
-git fetch $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS/$from.git refs/*:refs/*
+echo $GL_USER > gl-creater
+cp -R $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS/$from.git/hooks/* $GL_REPO_BASE_ABS/$to.git/hooks

doc/admin-defined-commands.mkd

@@ -167,15 +167,6 @@ the client side:
 
 or some such incantation.
 
-**Implementation note**: you might notice that this script does not just do a
-"git clone ...".  This is because creating a repo has to be done via gitolite.
-Otherwise, hooks won't get setup, and the all-important "gl-creater" file
-showing who owns the repo won't get created.
-
-So now we have an actual command to just create a repo and do nothing else:
-`ssh git@server git-init \'reponame\'`.  [Yes; those single quotes are
-required.  Deal with it.]
-
 <a name="rmrepo"></a>
 
 #### rmrepo