Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbose

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:52:08 +0200

Uwe Kleine-König venit, vidit, dixit 04.10.2010 11:51:
> Some people in #linux-rt claimed that you cannot define "--mirror" with
> "mirror" only.
> 
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-clone.txt |    7 ++++++-
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> index dc7d3d1..524a080 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
> @@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
>  	configuration variables are created.
>  
>  --mirror::
> -	Set up a mirror of the remote repository.  This implies `--bare`.
> +	Set up a mirror of the source repository.  This implies `--bare`.
> +	Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` does not only map local branches of
> +	the source to local branches of the target but all refs (including
> +	remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such
> +	that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the
> +	target repository.
>  
>  --origin <name>::
>  -o <name>::

Yep, and thanks for being patient! JC may prefer a grammatically correct
commit subject ("more verbosely") but in any case, thanks for hanging in
there ;)

Michael

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