From: Uwe Kleine-König Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:13:03 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose Message-ID: <1285963983-5629-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with "mirror". Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König --- 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 `` 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 :: -o :: -- 1.7.2.3