Scott Lamb wrote: > But from the manpage, it appears I'm reverting to a much older way of > doing things. Maybe I should be giving the newer way a shot? Was this > "-r" way meant to be used with cloning the mirrored repository? If so, > what's the workflow there? maybe I should reset racoon2.git's "master" > branch to the beginning of time (to avoid confusion), update head to > point to remotes/wide/master (so simple "git clone" and "git pull" > commands get CVS HEAD), and then update remote.origin.fetch on each > cloned repository to pull in other branches as needed? But even after > doing that, "git remote show origin" on a cloned repository still won't > give me the list of branches I want. So this seems doesn't seem as good > as the old way. > > Is there any way to make a repository cloned from a new-style > cvsimported one show the list of branches? It looks like I can't have a > remote in one repository refer to a remote in another repository - it > wants a direct reference. Most things seem to ignore origin's remotes, > at least unless I explicitly name one like "git pull origin > refs/remotes/wide/master". Hmm...I just saw in a git-svn howto [1] this text: [FIXME] This is all very important information for people setting up central tracking servers. This needs expansion, probably its own section. Talk about tracking server symlink tricks (eg refs/heads/svn -> ../remotes and refs/ttags/svn -> ../remotes/tags) Maybe I want to be doing something similar with git-cvsimport? I'm sure there's *some* reason way to take advantage of the my named remote; I just haven't figured out what it is yet. Could someone please fill in details on this text? Best regards, Scott [1] - http://utsl.gen.nz/talks/git-svn/intro.html - 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