From: Dmitry A. Ashkadov Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:54:31 GMT Subject: Re: fetch for bare repository Message-ID: <4F103797.7060906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120113134058.GB2850@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> 13.01.2012 17:40, Carlos Martín Nieto пишет: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:42:03PM +0400, Dmitry A. Ashkadov wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I can't understand how to fetch branches from external repository >> for bare repository. > What you probably want is a mirror (git clone --mirror). Unless you > tell git that you want a mirror, it's going to assume that you want a > bare repo to push your own changes up to it. Such a repo has no need > to be kept up to date, so clone doesn't set up any fetch refspecs. I don't have access to an origin repository. So, I need bare repository and push changes up to it. So, I think the word "mirror" isn't applicable to private repository. > Stepping back, do you need to fetch those branches into the private > repo? If you still have access to the main repo and that's where the > main project development is happening, why not use upstream's repo to > get those changes to your local repo (as in the one you use to work)? > It sounds like you're trying to replicate a centralised VCS' > workflow. Git works like a network and you can merge a branch from > upstream if you need to and then push to the private repo. Yes, I can add one more remote to my local repository, then fetch changes from it and push it to private repository. But I thought that update private repository is the best way. Thank you!