[PATCH v3] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely
From: Uwe Kleine-König <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:41
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with "mirror" only. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 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..ab72933 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` not only maps local branches of the + source to local branches of the target, it maps 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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