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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Mirroring svn
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:45:25 -0800
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On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 01:43 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
> > // fetching someone else's remote branches is not a standard thing to do
> > // so we'll need to edit our .git/config file
> > // you should have a section that looks like:
> > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> > 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> > 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > // infradead's mirror puts the gcc svn branches in its own namespace
> > // refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > // change our fetch line accordingly
> > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> > 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> > 	fetch = +refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> 
> FWIW, if you are writing a shell recipe for other people to cut and
> paste, you can say this as:
> 
>   git config remote.gcc.gnu.org.fetch \
>     '+refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*'

I thought about that, but I like to encourage people to actually look at
the config file, it's pretty easy to understand.

Harvey