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Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely

Some people in #linux-rt noticed that describing what "--mirror" option does
with "it mirrors" is way insufficient.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Uwe Kleine-König 2010-10-04 19:28:27 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent c03c83152d
commit 6db2103f92

@ -128,7 +128,12 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
configuration variables are created.
--mirror::
Set up a mirror of the remote repository. This implies `--bare`.
Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies `--bare`.
Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` not only maps local branches of the
source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including
remote branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such
that all these refs are overwritten by a `git remote update` in the
target repository.
--origin <name>::
-o <name>::