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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index f43c8b2c08..23203829cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the current master branch, if any. This default configuration is achieved by creating references to -the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and +the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and by initializing `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. @@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --verbose:: -v:: - Run verbosely. + Run verbosely. Does not affect the reporting of progress status + to the standard error stream. --progress:: Progress status is reported on the standard error stream @@ -127,7 +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-tracking 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>:: @@ -149,8 +155,7 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --template=<template_directory>:: Specify the directory from which templates will be used; - if unset the templates are taken from the installation - defined default, typically `/usr/share/git-core/templates`. + (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].) --depth <depth>:: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the @@ -187,7 +192,7 @@ include::urls.txt[] Examples -------- -Clone from upstream:: +* Clone from upstream: + ------------ $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 @@ -196,7 +201,7 @@ $ make ------------ -Make a local clone that borrows from the current directory, without checking things out:: +* Make a local clone that borrows from the current directory, without checking things out: + ------------ $ git clone -l -s -n . ../copy @@ -205,7 +210,7 @@ $ git show-branch ------------ -Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory:: +* Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory: + ------------ $ git clone --reference my2.6 \ @@ -215,14 +220,14 @@ $ cd my2.7 ------------ -Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public:: +* Create a bare repository to publish your changes to the public: + ------------ $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git ------------ -Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus:: +* Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus: + ------------ $ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ |