Re: New to git: sorry for obvious question.

[Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>]

Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:56:00AM +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>  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 want git fetch. Git pull also updates the working copy, which you
> don't have.
> 
> Also, git clone --bare doesn't set up the origin configuration, and I
> have to do it by hand:
>   git config remote.origin.url "$url"
>   git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*"

Brilliant!! That works.

So why wouldn't git-fetch work when, instead of setting up the origin
config, I put the url and refspec on the commandline? - not that it
matters, just interested.

Cheers,
	Paul.