From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx•de>
To: CJ van den Berg <cj@vdbonline•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git fetch inside a bare repo does nothing
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:54:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713115426.GA4608@xp.machine.xx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713113209.GA9046@prefect.vdbonline.net>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:32:10PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:33:03PM +0200, Peter Baumann wrote:
> > kblin on IRC wanted to know how to update a bare repo with fetching.
> > He wants to have a bare repo of samba as a mirror and clone from this
> > mirror to avoid network traffic and to have several git repos which
> > could all have a different branch checked out. For a better description
> > see [1].
> >
> > I suggested to use "git fetch --bare" inside the bare repo, but this
> > doesn't work. So what I'm asking now if this is intenional behaviour or
> > a bug, so please could someone shed some light on it? Or how is the
> > prefered method to update a bare repo *without* pushing to it?
>
> "git fetch" works fine in a bare repo. The issue you're probably having is
> that "git clone --bare" does not add a [remote "origin"] section to the
> config file like regular "git clone" does, so "git fetch" has nothing to
> do. Just add a remote section (either with "git remote add" or manually) and
> regular "git fetch" will work fine.
>
> Just for reference, this is the remote section that is equivalent to the
> original "git clone --bare your_uri_here":
>
> [remote "origin"]
> url = your_uri_here
> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>
>
Thx. This wasn't exactly my problem but it lead me to the real problem:
I used
git fetch /path/to/repo master
and had forgotten that I had to specify the local ref, too.
git fetch /path/to/repo master:master
worked as expected. Sorry for the noise.
-Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-13 10:33 git fetch inside a bare repo does nothing Peter Baumann
2007-07-13 11:32 ` CJ van den Berg
2007-07-13 11:54 ` Peter Baumann [this message]
2007-07-13 12:48 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-13 17:16 ` Peter Baumann
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