Re: How to mirror and augment a git repository

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 13, 2023, 16:30 UTC
Message-ID: <ZA9Pr90hFpSQaaU/@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87pm9d6drp.fsf@sebyte.me>

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 06:11:22PM +0000, Sebastian Tennant wrote:

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> > You'd have refs under refs/heads at this point.  They were created
> > when you did the original bare clone (since bare clones fetch all
> > heads to start with, though they don't set up a refspec).
> 
> I see the refs under refs/heads at last!
> 
> My mistake was looking for them in the file system (instead of in file
> ‘packed-refs’).

The best way to check is "git for-each-ref", which handles the storage details (including if we ever move to a new storage mechanism like reftable).

> The problem was in my partial understanding of the consequences of
> passing option --bare to ‘git clone’ (and in my not thinking to look
> in file ‘packed-refs’).

To be fair, I usually have to double-check the rules for "--bare" myself. :)

Glad everything is working now.

-Peff