Be able to clone a repository

[mathstuf]

Add the ability to clone a repository instead of being forced to open a local copy.

[davvid]

We have this. It's in the File->Clone menu action.

Let me know if that's not what you're looking for.

Cola's undergoing a pretty significant refactoring right now, but things look
like they should settle down soon in time for a new release.

It wouldn't hurt to start testing the 'next' branch, though.

There's some small tweaks it needs here and there (mainly, restoring the selection on refresh) but aside from that the refactoring-in-prep-for-new-features is getting close to completion. Most of the latest work has been for gh-19.

Once we have that out of the way then the gate's open for new features.

[mathstuf]

The problem is that git-cola opens up a directory choice dialog at start without a repo. If you don't start with one, you never get the GUI. I think it should work closer to qgit where it opens a blank UI then you can do one of opening an existing cloned repo or clone a new one to some directory.

[davvid]

Ah, that makes sense. Hmm.. a 'git cola clone' subcommand probably won't do either. What if the dialog had an option for clone as well as the default open?

I think that's what you're asking for, so let's re-open this and flag it as a feature request.

[davvid]

cola.main: Allow cloning when run outside of a git repository

An open dialog was originally used when cola was run outside of
a git repository. We now allow cloning a repository as well.

Closed by d36fede79fa5ad25eaaa314f8ff88206c9fa6a42

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar davvid@gmail.com