Hi, On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Dan Farina wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:56 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I guess you're looking for "git remote add --mirror origin <url>". > > AFAIK this is not in any released version yet, though. > > I just tried a bleeding edge git with --mirror. > > It's close, except (unless there is some other provision to take care of > this) remote branch deletes. (Which, after more gmane trolling, seemed > to be "git remote rm", which doesn't seem present just yet). git remote rm is about removing the remote nick, not a remote branch. > Of course, it is completely possible I'm using it incorrectly. In brief, > I did "git init" "git remote add --mirror backup <url>" "git pull" "git pull" without further parameters accesses the remote "origin", not "backup", and it merges _one_ branch into the current branch. What you should have done is "git fetch backup". Or use "origin" instead of "backup" right from the start, and then use "git fetch". But no pull. > (perhaps I should have used "git remote update"?) And the behavior of > this is more or less what I wanted, as far as sending branches. > Convenient removal of branches and propagating that removal still stumps > me. Is there a preferred way to do this yet? You want to remove branches from the local repo which are no longer there on the remote side? Then "git remote prune" is for you. For details, please see the man page. Ciao, Dscho - 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
