Re: Did I miss something? git-clone doesn't grab all branches????

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 31, 2007, 01:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wj6yzbp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <460D42FE.1080703@freescale.com>

Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> writes:

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> In the past, my clone of paulus/powerpc.git contained everything.
> Every time I did a git-pull, it would grab everything.  Then I could
> do a local clone/checkout if I ever wanted to work on a branch (like
> for-2.6.22).  I didn't have to know the names of the branches when I
> did git-clone.

If that is how you use multiple trees, I think you can make that "My central repository which is a mirror of Paulus" a bare repository clone; keep updating it with git-fetch instead as a bare repository does not have an associated working tree.

	( setup )

	$ git clone --bare git://git.kernel.org/.../ paulus-mirror.git

	( periodical mirror update from upstream )

        $ cd paulus-mirror.git && git fetch

	( forking off your play area )

	$ git clone -l -s paulus-mirror.git foobranch.git
        $ cd foobranch.git
        $ git checkout --track -b foobranch origin/foobranch
	$ hack hack

	( after mirror update )
        $ cd foobranch.git
        $ git pull ;# this pulls from your mirror