Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added --mirror-all to git-fetch.

From: A Large Angry SCM <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:42:30 -0700

Junio C Hamano wrote:
[...]
> 
> Another possibility.  The mirror might want to do something
> like:
> 
>         .git/refs/remotes/davem/sparc-2.6.git/...
> 	.git/refs/remotes/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/...
> 	.git/refs/remotes/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/...
> 
> to be a super-mirror of related projects.  This would give a
> convenient way for the visitors to browse them all at one place,
> and would save object store.  There are minor details such as
> gitweb may not allow browsing refs/remotes and git-fetch may not
> let you fetch from refs/remotes (I haven't checked), but they
> are fixable as needed.
> 

This is what I do with the 2 attached, poorly named, scripts. Very 
convenient for watching some of my favorite projects. ;-)
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="@"
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="@"

./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git/git

./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk.git gitk/gitk

./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.11.y.git stable/linux-2.6.11.y
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.12.y.git stable/linux-2.6.12.y
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.13.y.git stable/linux-2.6.13.y
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.14.y.git stable/linux-2.6.14.y
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.15.y.git stable/linux-2.6.15.y
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git stable/linux-2.6.16.y
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git stable/linux-2.6.17.y

./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git tglx/history

./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git torvalds/linux-2.6
./fred.sh git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/sparse.git torvalds/sparse