From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:45:56 GMT
Subject: Re: how to fetch entire heirarchy of refs from a remote?
Message-ID: <xmqqfuy92bt7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xra4hjskOLg=VhLMGazTSDH=ky8H+fj2VMCw+HoY2Frrg@mail.gmail.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> But, git clone --mirror and git fetch have failed to pull every ref,
>> and only end up with heads and tags.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jake
>
> It turns out that it *does* pull the refs, but they don't appear to
> show up inside the "refs" folder.. is there a reason for this?
>
> ie:
>
> ls .git/refs/changes
>
> shows nothing,but
>
> git ls-remote file:///path/to/repo
>
> does show them? Any particular reason for why this is? I am confused
> why refs aren't showing up inside the refs folder...

Does

	git for-each-ref refs/changes/

in your local resulting repository show them?

There is nothing that says "ls -R .git/refs/" is the way to
enumerate available refs (in fact it is a _wrong_ way that is
guaranteed to give you wrong results).

Hint: .git/packed-refs