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

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20070427180012.GA4489@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20070427043812.GX4489@pasky.or.cz>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:38:12AM CEST, Petr Baudis wrote:

> 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...

Ok, so it seems that git-fetch already can do almost all of this; at least it seems that I'm far from being alone in not realizing it. :-)

With the refspec +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* and git remote prune (thanks, Shawn!), it seems that git-fetch can already do everything git-mirror tries to do, except updating the HEAD, but especially with the symref embedding in git-ls-remote that Junio proposed, even that should be fixable easily, right?

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