Re: Rewriting bzrmerge.el

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>  > > From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>  > > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:01:25 +0100
>  > > 
>  > > "Download the repository twice" seems uncalled for.  One can always use
>  > > 
>  > > git clone --mirror
>  > > 
>  > > to create the second clone.
>  > 
>  > But I thought the discussion demonstrated that this command alone does
>  > not guarantee the second clone will have all the branches.  Did I
>  > misunderstand?
>
> --mirror does mean it has all branches that are present in the first
> clone (including all tracking branches).  What it doesn't have is a
> checked-out workspace (it's a bare repository).

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp$ git clone --mirror --no-bare lilypond 
lilypond2/.git
Cloning into bare repository 'lilypond2/.git'...
done.
address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp$ cd lilypond2/
address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond2$ ls
address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond2$ git config core.bare false
address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond2$ git branch
  badmike
  bettertie
  bookactive
  chordrootnamer
  clean-scm
[...]

but

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond2$ cat .git/config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
[remote "origin"]
        url = /usr/local/tmp/lilypond
        fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
        mirror = true

and I am not really sure what the implications of that are.  It's
definitely not an equivalent copy...

-- 
David Kastrup