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| author | Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> | 2010-10-04 19:28:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-10-06 11:24:17 -0700 |
| commit | 6db2103f92cf6c5caeeddec0bfd5f57f94e81d81 (patch) | |
| tree | 5be58b938ba6d614fcbb52c14a7c20bfabd5d9ae /Documentation/git-clone.txt | |
| parent | c03c83152d6ce6fa5ae49a8698da5fc25a53127f (diff) | |
| download | git-6db2103f92cf6c5caeeddec0bfd5f57f94e81d81.tar.gz | |
Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely
Some people in #linux-rt noticed that describing what "--mirror" option does
with "it mirrors" is way insufficient.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-clone.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 dc7d3d17b1..ab7293351d 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` not only maps local branches of the + source to local branches of the target, it maps 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>:: |