Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose
2010/10/1 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:
> Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with
> "mirror".
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
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> ---
> Documentation/git-clone.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> index dc7d3d1..5eedfbd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> @@ -128,7 +128,16 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
> configuration variables are created.
>
> --mirror::
> - Set up a mirror of the remote repository. This implies `--bare`.
> + Set up a mirror of the remote repository.
> + Using
> +
> + git remote update origin
> +
> + (or `<name>` instead of `origin` if -o is given) in the resulting
> + repository overwrites the local branches without asking.
> + This implies `--bare`.
> + Without --mirror (but with --bare) git remote update doesn't touch any
> + branches at all.
>
> --origin <name>::
> -o <name>::
> --
> 1.7.2.3
>
>
--
Darren Hart
Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>