One reason that I approach git with fear and trepidation is that the first time I tried to use it, the repository was the output of a tool that, unbeknownst to me, produced a bare repository. I never did figure out how to do anything with it.
Other than imply --bare , I'm not at all sure what --mirror does. git help clone doesn't really help all that much. It is written in git-speak. By the time I understand enough git-speak to understand git help clone , I probably will not need git help clone . To use a mirror repository for completeness-checking, I'd need to clone it. Absent the --mirror or --bare options, a working tree would occur, correct? following=tracking, correct? What would cause a repository to forget its tracking information? That seems to have happened. In the usual case, git fetch would update origin/master from its mother, correct? I'm not following the paragraph "It then ....". Thank you for your time and attention. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/beb2c369-2fc5-413e-bdf4-834e79f0a2f7n%40googlegroups.com.
