Re: how to make "full" copy of a repo

From: Kevin D <me@ikke.info>
Date: Mar 29, 2015, 11:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20150329110506.GC9387@vps892.directvps.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1427595686.4912.17.camel@scientia.net>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 04:21:26AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

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> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 15:31 +0100, Kevin D wrote: 
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> > * reflog (history of refs, though, by default disabled for bare
> >   repositories)
> is there a way to get this copied?
> 
>

No, the reflog is considered something private to the repository, so there is no way to git it through git clone.

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> > git clone --mirror is used for repositories that regularly get updates
> > from the repositories they were cloned from. Though this is not what you
> > want, it's not difficult to reset the refspecs to the default refspecs.
> What do you mean here? What would I need to reset exactly?

git clone --mirror sets up the fetch refspec in such a way that local refs would get reset to whatever upstream has:

+refs/*:refs/*

So every time you would fetch / pull, all your branches would reflect the way they are on the mirrored repo (which is why it's called mirror).

The default refspec is:

+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

Which would only fetch heads (branches), and maps them as remote tracking branches, so that your local branches are left alone.

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> > git clone --mirror is the closest you are going to get by only using
> > git.
> I see, thanks :)
> 
> > So to summarize, git clone is only used for cloning history, which means
> > objects and refs, the rest is not part of cloning. To get more, you have
> > to go outside git.
> 
> Thanks :)
> Chris.