From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: chris <jugg@hotmail.com>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] better "remote add --mirror" semantics
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:51:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110330195139.GA814@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110330145908.GA812@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:59:08AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> All of that being said, I'm not sure your config makes sense:
>
> > [remote "origin"]
> > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> > url = ssh://myserver.com/srv/git/myproject.git
> > [remote "mirror"]
> > url = ssh://chris@myserver.com/srv/git/mirrors/chris/myproject.git
> > fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
> > mirror = true
>
> Your mirror is configured to overwrite everything in refs/ if you fetch
> from it. Meaning it will throw away anything you fetched from "origin",
> as well as any local work. So this config is probably not what you want.
>
> I'm guessing what you really wanted is a remote only for pushing to, and
> created it with:
>
> git remote add --mirror mirror ssh://...
>
> The --mirror option has problems with that case. See this thread:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/161653
Here is a patch series which I think improves the situation. +cc Jan
Hudec from the mentioned thread.
[1/3]: remote: disallow some nonsensical option combinations
[2/3]: remote: separate the concept of push and fetch mirrors
[3/3]: remote: deprecate --mirror
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 2:27 checkout new branch tracks wrong remote (bug?) chris
2011-03-30 14:59 ` Jeff King
2011-03-30 19:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-03-30 19:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] remote: disallow some nonsensical option combinations Jeff King
2011-03-30 19:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] remote: separate the concept of push and fetch mirrors Jeff King
2011-03-30 20:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-30 20:57 ` Jeff King
2011-03-30 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-31 2:44 ` chris
2011-03-31 2:50 ` chris
2011-03-31 4:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-31 12:59 ` chris
2011-03-30 19:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] remote: deprecate --mirror Jeff King
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