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Re: Working with remotes; cloning remote references

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date
Oct 16, 2008, 19:20 UTC
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> From this point of view (and please correct me if I'm wrong), it would be
> good if "git clone" had an option to include a repo's remote references in
> the clone.  The clone's origin reference would point to the original repo as
> usual, but all the other remotes would be in the clone.

"git clone" doesn't have this option, but you can turn it on immediately after with something similar to: git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/* (which I use for fanning-out my git-svn repos)

See "git help fetch" for further documentation.
Peter Harris
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  2. Peter HarrisOct 16, 2008
  3. Marc BranchaudOct 16, 2008
  4. Peter HarrisOct 16, 2008
  5. Marc BranchaudOct 16, 2008
  6. Michael J GruberOct 17, 2008
  7. Marc BranchaudOct 17, 2008
  8. Michael J GruberOct 17, 2008
  9. Marc BranchaudOct 17, 2008
  10. Michael J GruberOct 20, 2008
  11. Marc BranchaudOct 20, 2008
  12. Michael J GruberOct 21, 2008
  13. Marc BranchaudOct 21, 2008
  14. Michael J GruberOct 22, 2008
  15. Terminology question: "tracking" branchesBjörn Steinbrink, Oct 22, 2008
  16. Michael J GruberOct 23, 2008
  17. Marc BranchaudOct 27, 2008
  18. Björn SteinbrinkOct 27, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinOct 27, 2008
  20. Björn SteinbrinkOct 27, 2008
  21. Björn SteinbrinkOct 28, 2008
  22. Marc BranchaudOct 27, 2008
  23. Michael J GruberOct 28, 2008
  24. Marc BranchaudOct 28, 2008

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