Re: [RFC] Mirroring svn

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On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:15 +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 01:43 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > 
> > > > // fetching someone else's remote branches is not a standard thing to do
> > > > // so we'll need to edit our .git/config file
> > > > // you should have a section that looks like:
> > > > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> > > > 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> > > > 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > > > // infradead's mirror puts the gcc svn branches in its own namespace
> > > > // refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > > > // change our fetch line accordingly
> > > > [remote "gcc.gnu.org"]
> > > > 	url = git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> > > > 	fetch = +refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*
> > > 
> > > FWIW, if you are writing a shell recipe for other people to cut and
> > > paste, you can say this as:
> > > 
> > >   git config remote.gcc.gnu.org.fetch \
> > >     '+refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*:refs/remotes/gcc.gnu.org/*'
> > 
> > I thought about that, but I like to encourage people to actually look at 
> > the config file, it's pretty easy to understand.
> 
> I agree that people should be encouraged to edit their .git/config.  But a 
> recipe is something easy-to-follow IMHO, so I would write this as a shell 
> script (with #-comments, not //-comments).

I'll probably turn it into such eventually, this was more of a
hand-holding exercise for people who would like to try git in gcc-land.

Harvey

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