From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:02:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Reading remote reflogs
Message-ID: <1364601776.30202.10.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <7v8v55n790.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On vr, 2013-03-29 at 15:58 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:
> 
> > On vr, 2013-03-29 at 15:45 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> > ... Mirrored repositories don't
> >> > maintain a reflog, even with core.logAllRefUpdates = true,...
> >> 
> >> Are you sure about this?  When log_all_ref_updates is not set, by
> >> default we do not log for bare repositories, but other than that, we
> >> do not do anything special with respect to reflogs.
> >
> > I was, as I tried the recipe below, though with a different repo. Must
> > have goofed something up, as it works now. Thanks for the braincheck :)
> >
> > That gives me a reasonable approximation of distinct pushes if I pull
> > the mirror often enough.
> 
> Instead of polling, why not "git push --mirror" whenever the
> original gets updated?

I considered that, but it has two downsides:
- Slows down the push as it needs to wait for this to complete
- Only works if you control the master, so it won't work with e.g. 
  github hosted repositories
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Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net