From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:35:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Manually turning a --bare local repository to a real mirror repository (--bare --mirror)
Message-ID: <m2wrm13kny.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikE-sDhzw8=ybKhYhHtTH84V8EEOptMaq8xxRHc@mail.gmail.com>

> My question: given that I don't have enough bandwidth and constant
> Internet connectivity, I'd like to ask if it's possible to manually
> turn a pure --bare local repository into a --bare --mirror one? If
> yes, how to do that?

An ordinary bare clone has no fetch configuration.  To turn the repo
into a mirror you just have to add one:

$ git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/*:refs/*"

and set the mirror flag:

$ git config remote.origin.mirror true

Then do a git fetch to fetch any missing refs.

Andreas.

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