Re: easy repository initialization that turned out not to be that easy

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 25, 2007, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707252112250.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <0EAD32C5-11DA-4B99-919D-87C0006A389C@zib.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> Cloning it to shared doesn't work either because the meaning of 
> 'git-clone --bare --shared' is different from 'git-init --shared'.

Yes, I lamented on that already. But we cannot change that. Too many users.

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>    mkdir shared.git
>    cd shared.git
>    git --bare init --shared
> 
> and tried to naively fetch all by executing
> 
>    git fetch ../private.git

Almost. "git fetch" does not store anything by default, so you have to do something like

	$ git config remote.origin.url ../private.git
	$ git config remote.origin.fetch 'refs/*:refs/*'
	$ git fetch

Eventually, I would like that to be available with

	$ git remote add --mirror fetch ../private.git

If nobody beats me to it, I'll do it later today.

Ciao, Dscho