Re: Excluding some refspecs from git push?

On Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 21:19 CEST,
     Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 14:46, Paul Sokolovsky
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Is there a way to exclude some refspec from being processed by "git
push"? What I'm looking for is a syntax like:

push some-remote 'refs/*' '!refs/meta/config'

, with the meaning of "push all refs except refs/meta/config". What
I'm trying to do with this is to find out a generic way to mirror
git repositories managed by the Gerrit tool
(http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/), which since version 2.2 uses
refs/meta/config branch to store repository-local configuration, so
should not be mirrored between two Gerrit's.

Unfortunately no. But you should be able to just mirror the namespaces
that matter:

  refs/heads/*
  refs/tags/*

Any reason to omit refs/notes/*?

Its not a good idea to mirror refs/meta/config unless you want the
same access controls, *AND ITS REALLY NOT A GOOD IDEA TO MIRROR
refs/changes/* BETWEEN GERRIT SERVERS*. Yes, that last part is worth
writing in full caps.

Because of the excessive number of refs to advertise for a non-Gerrit
server, or what's the reason for the full caps?

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