Re: [RFC] Mirroring svn

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

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 01:43 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > > // fetching someone else's remote branches is not a standard thing to do
> > > // so we'll need to edit our .git/config file
> > > // you should have a section that looks like:
> > > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> > > 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> > > 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > > // infradead's mirror puts the gcc svn branches in its own namespace
> > > // refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > > // change our fetch line accordingly
> > > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> > > 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> > > 	fetch = +refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > 
> > FWIW, if you are writing a shell recipe for other people to cut and
> > paste, you can say this as:
> > 
> >   git config remote.gcc.gnu.org.fetch \
> >     '+refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*'
> 
> I thought about that, but I like to encourage people to actually look at 
> the config file, it's pretty easy to understand.

I agree that people should be encouraged to edit their .git/config.  But a 
recipe is something easy-to-follow IMHO, so I would write this as a shell 
script (with #-comments, not //-comments).

Ciao,
Dscho