Re: git fetch inside a bare repo does nothing

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:32:10PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote:

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:33:03PM +0200, Peter Baumann wrote:

quoted

kblin on IRC wanted to know how to update a bare repo with fetching.
He wants to have a bare repo of samba as a mirror and clone from this
mirror to avoid network traffic and to have several git repos which
could all have a different branch checked out. For a better description
see [1].

I suggested to use "git fetch --bare" inside the bare repo, but this
doesn't work. So what I'm asking now if this is intenional behaviour or
a bug, so please could someone  shed some light on it?  Or how is the
prefered method to update a bare repo *without* pushing to it?

"git fetch" works fine in a bare repo. The issue you're probably having is
that "git clone --bare" does not add a [remote "origin"] section to the
config file like regular "git clone" does, so "git fetch" has nothing to
do. Just add a remote section (either with "git remote add" or manually) and
regular "git fetch" will work fine.

Just for reference, this is the remote section that is equivalent to the
original "git clone --bare your_uri_here":

[remote "origin"]
        url = your_uri_here
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

Thx. This wasn't exactly my problem but it lead me to the real problem:
I used
	git fetch /path/to/repo master

and had forgotten that I had to specify the local ref, too.

	git fetch /path/to/repo master:master

worked as expected. Sorry for the noise.

-Peter