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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

             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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