Re: on pulling/cloning git notes

[Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Christian MICHON venit, vidit, dixit 24.06.2010 14:25:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Michael J Gruber
>> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>> As you can see from the default "fetch" line above, "refs/heads" are
>>> fetched by default (when cloning, fetching etc.), but nothing else
>>> (well, besides some tags). You can set up an additional fetch refspec to
>>> get the notes also.
>>
>> I'm actually doing a fresh clone elsewhere, using 'git clone --mirror
>> gitolite:daat'.
>
> You didn't say "--mirror" before ;)

yes I did... "When trying to to a 'git clone --mirror' from that same
gitolite"...

>
>>
>> I was expecting to grab everything from the remote refs, as in this
>> case my .git/config will look like this:
>> [remote "origin"]
>>         fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
>>         mirror = true
>>         url = gitolite:daat
>
> Hmmh. I have notes in the standard "refs/notes/commits", push them into
> that same ref on the remote side (using an additional push refspec).
> When I "clone --mirror" that I do get them back in "refs/notes/commits"
> in the (bare) mirror repo.
>
>> [remote "origin"]
>>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/notes/*
>>         mirror = true
>>         url = gitolite:daat
>>
>> Thanks for the hint, Michael!
>>
>
> I'm glad it helped though I don't know why...
>
> Did you push the notes into head refs?

yes apparently I did. I thought it did help, I must have pushed the
wrong way originally.

I'll fix that. Actually --mirror works fine and I'm actually getting
the commit linked to the notes.

thanks for double checking.

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