From: Brian Foster <brian.foster@innova-card.com>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] `git fetch tag NAME' into mirror repo does not update HEAD, what to do?
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:38:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008121238.51983.brian.foster@innova-card.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C63B1C9.6050801@dbservice.com>
On Thursday 12 August 2010 10:33:13 Tomas Carnecky wrote:
Tom,
Thanks for the reply, but I suspect you didn't read
the problem correctly ....
> On 8/12/10 9:54 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> > Bare repository ORIG's master looks like this:
> >[ ... ]
> > Repository SLAVE is a mirror clone of ORIG which
NOTE.......................^^^^^^
>[ ... ]
> Fetch only fetches commits. It doesn't update any local refs (other than
> FETCH_HEAD). If you want to switch HEAD to that new tag, use checkout.
No, a fetch in a mirror, when fetching all the way
to the HEAD (e.g., a simple `git fetch origin'),
does update the branch. (You can easily modify the
script I included to prove this.)
>[ ... ]
> Is SLAVE a bare repo? [ ... ]
Yes it is bare (because it's a mirror), as per the
description, subject, and posted script.
cheers!
-blf-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-12 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-12 7:54 [Q] `git fetch tag NAME' into mirror repo does not update HEAD, what to do? Brian Foster
2010-08-12 8:33 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-08-12 10:38 ` Brian Foster [this message]
2010-08-12 11:05 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-08-12 12:16 ` [SOLVED] " Brian Foster
2010-08-12 12:32 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-08-12 13:22 ` Brian Foster
2010-08-12 13:34 ` Tomas Carnecky
2010-08-13 7:03 ` Brian Foster
2010-08-12 17:02 ` [Q] " Brandon Casey
2010-08-13 7:22 ` Brian Foster
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