Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Jeff King wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:10:10AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >>>> git-fetch? >>> Its the first half, still need to resolve FETCH_HEAD, HEAD, etc.. >> >> Can you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish? > > A local mirror of a git tree. I can do the clone easy enough, its > trying to figure out the updates after the fact that is the issue. Assuming typical configuration, with the following in remotes/origin ---[ <path-to-repo>/.git/remotes/origin ]---- URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin Pull:+refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu Pull: refs/heads/man:refs/heads/man Pull: refs/heads/html:refs/heads/html Pull: refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next Pull: refs/heads/todo:refs/heads/todo Pull: refs/heads/maint:refs/heads/maint --------------------------------------------- to update your repository, do: $ git checkout master $ git fetch origin Any branch except listed ot fhose fetched to will do, or even any command that leaves HEAD different than one of the branches fetched to. Everything is updated. Then you can do the second part of pull, using $ git checkout master $ git pull . master -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html