On 13/03/12 20:39, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.03.2012 11:36, schrieb Allan McRae: >> On 13/03/12 20:13, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>>> What makepkg does: >>>>> 1) goes into $vcsdir, checks for the pacman directory >>>>> - if not present, do the git checkout >>>>> - if present, enter and do a "git pull" unless --holdver is specified >>> This should be a path under SRCDIR. This should also be a bare clone >>> without working copy. >> >> Query, do you mean $srcdir or $SRCDEST there? > > Ehm, SRCDEST, sorry :) > >> Also, do you mean a bare (--bare) clone or a shallow (--depth 1) clone? >> As far as I know, a bare clone can not be updated. > > Of course a bare clone can be updated (man git-fetch). Only git pull > won't work. Also, regarding the problem in my other mail: git clone > --mirror might be the right thing. >
Oh... cool. Learnt something new today. I did not know that could be done. Allan
