From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:22:07 GMT
Subject: Re: how to make "full" copy of a repo
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AN6X3oh2=yLn-szEApEMC+uQMmO6qBYbPrVNK1_d5tEQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150328143152.GB9387@vps892.directvps.nl>

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Kevin D <me@ikke.info> wrote:
> Git clone is never going to get you a copy where nothing is lost.
>
> What you are losing on clone is:
>
> * config settings (this includes the configures remotes)
> * hooks
> * reflog (history of refs, though, by default disabled for bare
>   repositories)
> * Stashes, because the reference to them is stored in the reflog
> * unreferenced objects (though you said those are not a requirement, it
>   is still something that is lost)

This is true. But I wonder if we should (and can) support
--super-mirror option (disabled by default), where reflog and stashes
are kept, for backup purposes. We might keep unreferenced objects as
well if it's not hard to do.
-- 
Duy