On Saturday 17 July 2010, Mahesh Vaidya wrote: > BTW - I have tried this > git update-ref HEAD FETCH_HEAD; is this ok ?? > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Mahesh Vaidya <forvaidya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > git fetch --all --append updates FETCH_HEAD. I'd like this command to > > update HEAD as well; is there any flag ? > > > > I have a reason to do it; trying to implement multisite > > > > A (master) -> B (readonly mirror) -> C (workspace) > > > > if sitting in B; git fetch does't update HEAD You need to set up special refspecs in your B repo, so that git fetch updates refs/heads/* instead of refs/remotes/origin/*. When that is done, a simple 'git fetch' will update your branches (and HEAD as a result). In short, you should create the B repo using 'git clone --mirror' (which will set up the correct refspecs for you) ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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