Re: New to git: sorry for obvious question.

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

On Mon, Feb 04 2008 at 12:41 +0200, Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net> wrote:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've moved a project from CVS on sourceforge to git on repo.or.cz.  I
>>> want a local mirror on my own home server, so that it appears amongst
>>> the projects shown by my own gitweb set up, and so it gets caught by
>>> my backup system.  I've created the mirror with
>>>
>>>   git clone --bare <remote-url> <local-dir>
>>>
>>> and that seems fine.  But how do I now keep it up to date.  I was
>>> guessing a cron job doing some sort of git pull, but pull doesn't
>>> look to work on --bare proj.git type repositories.
>> You probably want "git fetch". Actually, "git pull" does a fetch first
>> (get the remote revisions that you don't have), and then a merge with
>> your working tree.
> 
> Yeah, that's what I thought, but it doesn't seem to work with --bare
> repositories that are of the form proj.git, rather than having a dir 
> proj containing checkout files and a .git folder. Both pull and fetch
> say that it isn't a git repository (although I can view it under gitweb,
> and I can clone and pule from it).
> 
> 
git-remote update is your friend then

Boaz