From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:13:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285963983-5629-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> (raw)
Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with
"mirror".
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/git-clone.txt | 11 ++++++++++-
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index dc7d3d1..5eedfbd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,16 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
configuration variables are created.
--mirror::
- Set up a mirror of the remote repository. This implies `--bare`.
+ Set up a mirror of the remote repository.
+ Using
+
+ git remote update origin
+
+ (or `<name>` instead of `origin` if -o is given) in the resulting
+ repository overwrites the local branches without asking.
+ This implies `--bare`.
+ Without --mirror (but with --bare) git remote update doesn't touch any
+ branches at all.
--origin <name>::
-o <name>::
--
1.7.2.3
next reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-01 20:13 Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2010-10-01 20:18 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose Darren Hart
2010-10-01 21:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-04 7:25 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-04 7:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-10-04 8:23 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-04 8:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-10-04 9:28 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-04 9:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Uwe Kleine-König
2010-10-04 12:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-04 12:52 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-04 14:42 ` Darren Hart
2010-10-04 17:28 ` [PATCH v3] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely Uwe Kleine-König
2010-10-04 17:29 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04 17:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-10-04 19:05 ` Darren Hart
2010-10-05 7:01 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-10-05 15:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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