Re: on pulling/cloning git notes

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Jun 24, 2010, 13:16 UTC
Message-ID: <4C235ABE.9050504@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilGS6t29J4NQMgseZY9WD1kAPCr9oFeQt1RaWjP@mail.gmail.com>

Christian MICHON venit, vidit, dixit 24.06.2010 14:25:

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> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> As you can see from the default "fetch" line above, "refs/heads" are
>> fetched by default (when cloning, fetching etc.), but nothing else
>> (well, besides some tags). You can set up an additional fetch refspec to
>> get the notes also.
> 
> I'm actually doing a fresh clone elsewhere, using 'git clone --mirror
> gitolite:daat'.

You didn't say "--mirror" before ;)

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> 
> I was expecting to grab everything from the remote refs, as in this
> case my .git/config will look like this:
> [remote "origin"]
>         fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
>         mirror = true
>         url = gitolite:daat

Hmmh. I have notes in the standard "refs/notes/commits", push them into that same ref on the remote side (using an additional push refspec). When I "clone --mirror" that I do get them back in "refs/notes/commits" in the (bare) mirror repo.

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> [remote "origin"]
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/notes/*
>         mirror = true
>         url = gitolite:daat
> 
> Thanks for the hint, Michael!
>

I'm glad it helped though I don't know why...

Did you push the notes into head refs?

Comparing the output of

git ls-remote gitolite:daat

to that of "git show-ref" in you local repos (the original one and the mirror) may clear things up quite a bit.

Cheers, Michael