Re: easy repository initialization that turned out not to be that easy

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> Cloning it to shared doesn't work either because the meaning of 
> 'git-clone --bare --shared' is different from 'git-init --shared'.

Yes, I lamented on that already.  But we cannot change that.  Too many 
users.

>    mkdir shared.git
>    cd shared.git
>    git --bare init --shared
> 
> and tried to naively fetch all by executing
> 
>    git fetch ../private.git

Almost.  "git fetch" does not store anything by default, so you have to do 
something like

	$ git config remote.origin.url ../private.git
	$ git config remote.origin.fetch 'refs/*:refs/*'
	$ git fetch

Eventually, I would like that to be available with

	$ git remote add --mirror fetch ../private.git

If nobody beats me to it, I'll do it later today.

Ciao,
Dscho