Hmm, no, --mirror adds extra remote tracking information. Quoting the git-clone man page: "...the branch heads at the remote are copied directly..." which is to say, git clone --bare isn't doing what it's supposed to do. that said, i'm not too sure about this, hence this thread. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:06:39PM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> afaik, a bare repository is just a copy of the .git folder of the >> cloned repository. why isn't any of its branches copied too? > > Maybe you're searching for git clone --mirror and not git clone --bare? > -- Cheers, Ray Chuan -- 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