From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Automatically remote prune
Message-ID: <20091106103100.GG17748@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <76718490911051638w7cd5306bx65ed8d9ac525d2c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:38:39PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:09:03PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
> >> Actually, mirror mode applies to push only. Unless I'm missing
> >> something obvious.
> >
> > Perhaps you are, mirror mode applies to fetch as well; that's how e.g.
> > repo.or.cz mirror mode is done currently.
> 
> Can you please be more specific? There is no mention of mirror in
> builtin-fetch.c, only builtin-push.c. Further, the docs for
> "remote.<name>.mirror" indicate it's a push option only.
> 
> So please explain what you mean by "that's how repo.or.cz mirror mode is done".

Ok, I got a bit confused there. :-) For fetches, it just sets up the
refspec to point to main namespace instead of refs/remote/, of course it
doesn't use the remote.*.mirror config. I'm not sure what Junio meant by
the change being easy, seeing that push uses a technical trick in
send-pack that doesn't seem to be straightforwardly applicable to
fetch... but I don't know this part of code too well.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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