From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:43:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Mirroring svn
Message-ID: <20071206064317.GC18698@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1196922153.10408.101.camel@brick>

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:

> // fetching someone else's remote branches is not a standard thing to do
> // so we'll need to edit our .git/config file
> // you should have a section that looks like:
> [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> // infradead's mirror puts the gcc svn branches in its own namespace
> // refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> // change our fetch line accordingly
> [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> 	fetch = +refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*

FWIW, if you are writing a shell recipe for other people to cut and
paste, you can say this as:

  git config remote.gcc.gnu.org.fetch \
    '+refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*'

-Peff