Re: how to clone/checkout branch/tag vesion from GIT repository

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 11, 2012, 17:22 UTC
Message-ID: <20120511172214.GC26916@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1336740319206-7550370.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:45:19AM -0700, supadhyay wrote:

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> branch - br6-1-0 is already exists on remote. I have my few data which are
> associated on this branch and I want to get that specific data from br6-1-0.
> 
> I did cvs2git and its working fine without any issue. 
> 
> Also I can see the  list of branches when I run "git branch -r"  on my
> GITserver through "git" user. But after did this migration I do clone from
> git to gitolite on the same server (to manage with user functionality). Now,
> after cloning to gitolite if I run "git branch -r" it shows only master.
> 
> I follow belwo step
> 1- cvs 2 git  >> I can see list of branches here 
> 2- git 2 gitolite  >> I can not see any branch except master.

How did you do the clone? A regular "clone" will clone only local branches of the remote repository (so if B fetches from A, and C fetches from B, C will not bother with A's branches).

If you are trying to clone the repository to act as a server repository in gitolite, I think you would want to use "git clone --mirror". This will omit the working tree (which you should not need for the server end), and will fetch all branches (exactly mirroring the state of the original repository).

-Peff