From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:18:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose
Message-ID: <AANLkTimN53bcadyzshHNVULkt=kzdfTQrUmZxUd+FKpY@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1285963983-5629-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

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>

> ---
>  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