# Behavior of "git push --mirror repo" 2 messages from 2011-10-25 to 2011-10-25. Participants: Sebastian Schuberth. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28761 ## Sebastian Schuberth, 2011-10-25 10:25 Subject: Behavior of "git push --mirror repo" Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/j862ts%24d75%241%40dough.gmane.org ``` Hi, I cloned a repository from "origin" to my local disk. I only have a local branch for "master", although there are more remote branches. Now I want to initialize a new empty bare repository with an exact copy of the repository, including all branches, also those remote branches that I have no local branch for. So I did: $ git remote add sf $ git push --mirror sf Which prints: * [new branch] master -> master * [new branch] refs/notes/commits -> refs/notes/commits * [new branch] refs/original/refs/heads/master -> refs/original/refs/heads/master * [new branch] origin/HEAD -> origin/HEAD * [new branch] origin/bourke -> origin/bourke * [new branch] origin/colorscheme -> origin/colorscheme * [new branch] origin/cpuinfo -> origin/cpuinfo * [new branch] origin/demo-ssao -> origin/demo-ssao * [new branch] origin/master -> origin/master * [new branch] origin/mesh-improvements -> origin/mesh-improvements * [new branch] origin/mesh-iterators-subdiv -> origin/mesh-iterators-subdiv * [new tag] gale2-static-dummy-window -> gale2-static-dummy-window In the target repository "sf" I now alony have the "master" branch and the "gale2-static-dummy-window" tag, but none of the remote branches from "origin". I was reading the --mirror option as if this should happen: * [new branch] origin/bourke -> sf/bourke etc. Is this behavior expected? If yes, what the correct way to mirror a repository then (without creating a local branch for each remote branch first)? Thanks. -- Sebastian Schuberth ``` ## Sebastian Schuberth, 2011-10-25 12:46 Subject: Re: Behavior of "git push --mirror repo" Message-ID: <4EA6AF9E.30201@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4EA6AF9E.30201%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 25.10.2011 12:25, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > I cloned a repository from "origin" to my local disk. I only have a Got it: I was missing "--bare" when doing my clone. -- Sebastian Schuberth ```