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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Overriding ~/.gitconfig using GIT_CONFIG
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:49:51 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:39:05PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:56 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:13:01PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 
> > > We've gone through several iterations of this but as things stand now,
> > > to initially clone things we're doing:
> > > 
> > > git clone --bare --mirror <url> <dir>
> > > 
> > > but if we already have some existing clone we'd update with:
> > > 
> > > git remote prune origin
> > > git remote rm origin
> > > git remote add --mirror origin <url>
> > > git fetch --all -t
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > So if a user has an origin remote in their .gitconfig, can we ignore it?
> > 
> > Wouldn't:
> > 
> >   git fetch --prune <url> refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> > 
> > do what you want, and not look at config at all?
> 
> Since this is a bare/mirror clone, wouldn't that need to be:
> 
>  git fetch --prune <url> refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

Sorry, yes, I forgot about the mirroring bit.

> That also wouldn't fetch tags?

It would only do autofollowing. You could use "-t", but if you really
want a straight mirror, you could do:

  git fetch --prune refs/*:refs/*

to get everything.

-Peff