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Allen Ben Philipose
Allen Ben Philipose

Reputation: 21

Is there any difference between 'mirroring a repo' and 'importing a repo' in github?

What difference does it make if we mirror a repository from an organization we are in, or import a repository while creating a new one. Are there any specific advantages?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1029

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ElpieKay
ElpieKay

Reputation: 30878

From Github docs Mirroring a repository and Importing a Git repository using the command line, we can see the commands are the same, git clone --bare and git push --mirror. So I think they are the same thing in Github.

But when it comes to Git, mirror reminds me of git clone --mirror and git push --mirror. There are differences between --mirror and --bare. If you want to preserve all refs in the server repository, use git clone --mirror. If you want to preserve only branches and tags, use git clone --bare. As to all refs, they are builtin types of refs like branches, tags, notes, etc. The hosting service may use some special customized refs that cannot be fetched by git clone --mirror.

Upvotes: 1

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