From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Manually turning a --bare local repository to a real mirror repository (--bare --mirror)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:35:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wrm13kny.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikE-sDhzw8=ybKhYhHtTH84V8EEOptMaq8xxRHc@mail.gmail.com> (Ilyes Gouta's message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:59:58 +0100")
> My question: given that I don't have enough bandwidth and constant
> Internet connectivity, I'd like to ask if it's possible to manually
> turn a pure --bare local repository into a --bare --mirror one? If
> yes, how to do that?
An ordinary bare clone has no fetch configuration. To turn the repo
into a mirror you just have to add one:
$ git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/*:refs/*"
and set the mirror flag:
$ git config remote.origin.mirror true
Then do a git fetch to fetch any missing refs.
Andreas.
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2011-01-18 21:59 Manually turning a --bare local repository to a real mirror repository (--bare --mirror) Ilyes Gouta
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