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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail•com>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to fetch entire heirarchy of refs from a remote?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:45:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfuy92bt7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xra4hjskOLg=VhLMGazTSDH=ky8H+fj2VMCw+HoY2Frrg@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:36:30 -0800")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail•com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail•com> wrote:
>>
>> But, git clone --mirror and git fetch have failed to pull every ref,
>> and only end up with heads and tags.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jake
>
> It turns out that it *does* pull the refs, but they don't appear to
> show up inside the "refs" folder.. is there a reason for this?
>
> ie:
>
> ls .git/refs/changes
>
> shows nothing,but
>
> git ls-remote file:///path/to/repo
>
> does show them? Any particular reason for why this is? I am confused
> why refs aren't showing up inside the refs folder...

Does

	git for-each-ref refs/changes/

in your local resulting repository show them?

There is nothing that says "ls -R .git/refs/" is the way to
enumerate available refs (in fact it is a _wrong_ way that is
guaranteed to give you wrong results).

Hint: .git/packed-refs

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-07 23:06 how to fetch entire heirarchy of refs from a remote? Jacob Keller
2016-01-07 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-07 23:23   ` Jacob Keller
2016-01-07 23:25   ` Jacob Keller
2016-01-07 23:36 ` Jacob Keller
2016-01-07 23:45   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-01-08 16:30     ` Jacob Keller
2016-01-07 23:39 ` Jacob Keller

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