From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:56:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Mirroring repository state, with branches and submodules.
Message-ID: <20090317165635.GB3817@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <623D3837-E899-49AF-9A37-F667A311EE58@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:21:40PM +0000, Toby White <toby.o.h.white@googlemail.com> wrote:
> git fetch
> for BRANCH in $(git branch -r | cut -d / -f 2); do
>    git checkout $BRANCH
>    git reset --hard origin/$BRANCH
> done
> git submodule update --init

First, I think you don't handle the case when you have multiple
remotes. I don't know if this is a problem for you or not.

Second, use plumbing in scripts, git for-each-ref has a stable output
format, while git branch may change.