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Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:41

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:51 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with
"mirror" only.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <redacted>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-clone.txt |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index dc7d3d1..524a080 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 	configuration variables are created.
 
 --mirror::
-	Set up a mirror of the remote repository.  This implies `--bare`.
+	Set up a mirror of the source repository.  This implies `--bare`.
+	Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` does not only map local branches of
+	the source to local branches of the target but all refs (including
+	remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such
+	that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the
+	target repository.
 
 --origin <name>::
 -o <name>::
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