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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone --bare doesn't create refs/heads/*?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:40:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090129144036.GH21473@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d0901290636m5b472499mdf614841a06ec978@mail.gmail.com>

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[ Please don't top-post. ]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:36:26PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, no, --mirror adds extra remote tracking information.
> 
> Quoting the git-clone man page:
> 
> "...the branch heads at the remote are copied directly..."
> 
> which is to say, git clone --bare isn't doing what it's supposed to do.
> 
> that said, i'm not too sure about this, hence this thread.

Ah, packed refs. :)

See man git-pack-refs, git clone uses it to pack refs after a clone.
They are still in the 'packed-refs' file.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-29 14:06 git clone --bare doesn't create refs/heads/*? Tay Ray Chuan
2009-01-29 14:26 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-29 14:36   ` Tay Ray Chuan
2009-01-29 14:40     ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2009-01-29 14:48       ` Tay Ray Chuan

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