Re: how to fetch entire heirarchy of refs from a remote?

> Hi,
>
> Say I have a repository which has a series of refs in a heirarchy such
> as a gerrit repository with changes specified something like:
>
> refs/changes/96/55596/3
> refs/changes/96/55596/4
> refs/changes/96/57496/1
> refs/changes/96/57496/2
> refs/changes/96/69796/1
> refs/changes/96/69796/2
> refs/changes/96/71696/1
> refs/changes/96/71696/2
> refs/changes/97/40197/1
> refs/changes/97/40197/2
> refs/changes/97/40197/3
> refs/changes/97/40197/4
> ...
> refs/changes/97/71697/2
> refs/changes/97/71697/3
> refs/changes/98/47298/1
> refs/changes/98/47298/2
> refs/changes/98/47298/3
> refs/changes/98/57298/1
> refs/changes/98/57298/2
> refs/changes/98/73598/1
> refs/changes/99/44099/1
> refs/changes/99/69299/1
>
>
> Is it possible to specify a refspec such that all of these will be
> fetched? I tried doing
>
> +refs/changes/*:refs/changes/*
>
> but this doesn't work since the * can only be one portion of a refspec
>
> The problem is that I would like to be able to pull all of these
> changes in a git mirror so that I can reduce network traffic I use to
> the gerrit server, by updating my local copy once and using the local
> copy on the other tasks I need. This is necessary since the gerrit
> server is (a) far away and (b) closes my connection when I have too
> many requests.
>
> But, git clone --mirror and git fetch have failed to pull every ref,
> and only end up with heads and tags.
>
> Regards,
> Jake