On Mon, Feb 04 2008 at 12:41 +0200, Paul Gardiner <osronline@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthieu Moy wrote: >> Paul Gardiner <osronline@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've moved a project from CVS on sourceforge to git on repo.or.cz. I >>> want a local mirror on my own home server, so that it appears amongst >>> the projects shown by my own gitweb set up, and so it gets caught by >>> my backup system. I've created the mirror with >>> >>> git clone --bare <remote-url> <local-dir> >>> >>> and that seems fine. But how do I now keep it up to date. I was >>> guessing a cron job doing some sort of git pull, but pull doesn't >>> look to work on --bare proj.git type repositories. >> You probably want "git fetch". Actually, "git pull" does a fetch first >> (get the remote revisions that you don't have), and then a merge with >> your working tree. > > Yeah, that's what I thought, but it doesn't seem to work with --bare > repositories that are of the form proj.git, rather than having a dir > proj containing checkout files and a .git folder. Both pull and fetch > say that it isn't a git repository (although I can view it under gitweb, > and I can clone and pule from it). > > git-remote update is your friend then Boaz - 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
