Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:51 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with
> "mirror" only.
>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
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> Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> 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 <name>::
> -o <name>::
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>