From: Uwe Kleine-König Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:51:18 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose Message-ID: <1286185878-23795-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <4CA99E43.1000204@drmicha.warpmail.net> Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with "mirror" only. Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart Cc: Michael J Gruber Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index dc7d3d1..524a080 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ 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 source repository. This implies `--bare`. + Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` does not only map local branches of + the source to local branches of the target but all refs (including + remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such + that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the + target repository. --origin :: -o :: -- 1.7.2.3