Re: Git Fetch / updating HEAD

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Jul 17, 2010, 16:11 UTC
Message-ID: <201007171811.13624.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilp5lZn99QZPWSkCHStnRdkGx6mMU2IQBvllaU4@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 17 July 2010, Mahesh Vaidya wrote:

> BTW - I have tried this
> git  update-ref HEAD  FETCH_HEAD; is this ok ??
> 
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Mahesh Vaidya <forvaidya@gmail.com>

wrote:

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> > Hi,
> > 
> > git fetch --all --append updates FETCH_HEAD. I'd like this command to
> > update HEAD as well; is there any flag ?
> > 
> > I have a reason to do it; trying to implement multisite
> > 
> > A (master) -> B (readonly mirror) -> C (workspace)
> > 
> > if sitting in B; git fetch does't update HEAD

You need to set up special refspecs in your B repo, so that git fetch updates refs/heads/* instead of refs/remotes/origin/*. When that is done, a simple 'git fetch' will update your branches (and HEAD as a result).

In short, you should create the B repo using 'git clone --mirror' (which will set up the correct refspecs for you)

...Johan

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