From fe69da1a8b86f7d38bc81f4fc704074dbae22e13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Marsh <mmarsh@cs.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:42:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] added a little pointer for cloning clean copies --- README | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index e2a4933..7f9f655 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -207,7 +207,10 @@ clone [may require Internet access] Compare ~/another/testing and ~/another/more_testing. They should be identical! Here we've illustrated the ability to specify a destination directory for *clone*. If unspecified, the repo name of our source will - be the name of the destination. + be the name of the destination. This is especially useful when you want + to make sure that the repository you just pushed to actually contains + what you think, since you can have a second (clean) copy in another + directory (see "pull", below). Here, we've cloned a repo in a local directory. This is of limited usefulness, since generally you're going to want to clone repos stored on other machines. -- GitLab