From 6db2103f92cf6c5caeeddec0bfd5f57f94e81d81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:28:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Some people in #linux-rt noticed that describing what "--mirror" option does with "it mirrors" is way insufficient. Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart Cc: Michael J Gruber Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 :: -o :: -- 2.11.4.GIT