Re: git remote update -> rejected

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

Hi,

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > > > What about changing --mirror to add a push line instead of a fetch 
> > > > line?
> > >
> > > I would not expect --mirror to add a push line when "git-remote add" 
> > > without --mirror does not a push line either.
> > 
> > Let me reverse the question.  When does it make sense to use 
> > "git-remote add --mirror" with the current implementation?
> > 
> > It's not a rhetoric question.  I know when it would make sense to have push
> > refspecs on a remote for which you plan to use "git push --mirror" (and in
> > "next", that is the case if you create the remote with "git-remote add
> > --mirror").  But I'm a total newbie for things that do not fit my workflows,
> > so I don't know when it would make sense to pull from that kind of remote.
> 
> And actually, I just realized that what I expected from --mirror is this:
> 
> [remote "mirror"]
>         url = blah
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/mirror/*
>         push = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>         mirror
> 
> ... so that I can check the state of the mirror with "git log -1
> mirror/master", and still the push refspec is there so that my local remotes
> are not entirely mirrored.

AFAICT this contradicts everything in the original thread resulting in the 
--mirror patch.

Ciao,
Dscho