Re: Way to "impersonate" remote or sync remotes without fetching everything?

From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 14, 2025, 19:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CALnO6CCsyF0w6jP+Xk+qQZCW-r_004b5_80XzsPLH2n7fnogsg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <351a6036-3bac-43f4-88b0-cd52240312cd@frank.fyi>

On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM Klaus Frank <vger.kernel.org@frank.fyi> wrote:

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> On 2025-04-13 23:52:14, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> > That all makes sense, except: why need the sync (cron) job? Treat a
> > local copy as authoritative for you and push to all your remotes. This
> > puts you in control at the cost of not happening automatically. (You
> > could conceivably have a local cron job that did this.)
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> Cause I don't want to have it locally on e.g. a notebook that can break
> mainly :D
> (I know myself I won't be making enough backups if that is their primary
> location)

If you push to other remotes (or cron, as below), then you'll have "backups for free"?

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> But I have been thinking about something similar earlier today. Maybe I
> should just
> trash my software forge (gitlab) and just use git from the cli via ssh.
> Then writing a cron job to do the syncing would also be easier as I'd have
> a local copy to work with

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D. Ben Knoble