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
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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>::