[PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose

From

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Date

Oct 1, 2010, 20:13 UTC

Message-ID

<1285963983-5629-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/git-clone.txt |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index dc7d3d1..5eedfbd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,16 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 	configuration variables are created.
 
 --mirror::
-	Set up a mirror of the remote repository.  This implies `--bare`.
+	Set up a mirror of the remote repository.
+	Using
+
+		git remote update origin
+
+	(or `<name>` instead of `origin` if -o is given) in the resulting
+	repository overwrites the local branches without asking.
+	This implies `--bare`.
+	Without --mirror (but with --bare) git remote update doesn't touch any
+	branches at all.
 
 --origin <name>::
 -o <name>::

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