Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] git-mirror - exactly mirror another repository

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 04:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20070427043812.GX4489@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <4631642B.2010501@gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:47:07AM CEST, A Large Angry SCM wrote:

> It would be nice if this had an option to not mirror HEAD and another 
> option to map the refs from (/ref/[^/])/(.*) to /ref/\1/${repo_path}/\2.

When I try to guess why you want this, I think this is just saying "it would be nice if this was part of git-fetch and if git-fetch actually did this automagically by default". Because when you clone a given repository with all its branches, you are naturally interested not only in the snapshot of the branch set at the point of the clone but more likely just want "anytime whatever branches are over there". So when fetching a * refspec it's natural to look for new branches and fetch them too; and if you do that, it should be pretty easy to also (probably optionally) remove stale branches.

But heck, maybe with all the nifty fetch--tools git-fetch is already doing it. But there seems to be basically zero documentation, the code is not that easy to follow and it's too late for me to be decyphering it now...

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