Re: New to git: sorry for obvious question.

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Feb 4, 2008, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq4pcp6moq.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <47A6E130.7090909@glidos.net>

Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> I've moved a project from CVS on sourceforge to git on repo.or.cz.  I
> want a local mirror on my own home server, so that it appears amongst
> the projects shown by my own gitweb set up, and so it gets caught by
> my backup system.  I've created the mirror with
>
>   git clone --bare <remote-url> <local-dir>
>
> and that seems fine.  But how do I now keep it up to date.  I was
> guessing a cron job doing some sort of git pull, but pull doesn't
> look to work on --bare proj.git type repositories.

You probably want "git fetch". Actually, "git pull" does a fetch first (get the remote revisions that you don't have), and then a merge with your working tree.

-- 
Matthieu