I need to regularly extract the git logs for all branches of several repositories. While I could clone them and then perform a git fetch, I thought about saving some disk space and time and only cloning them as bare:
git clone --bare repoUrl
After the clone, all logs and branches are up to date.
I can issue git log --all
and I can see all the changes up to the clone moment.
However, I am not able to fetch changes from the remote repo when it gets updated. I.e. if I issue:
git fetch --all
and then git log --all
, I don't see any of the change that happened in the remote repo.
How can I update the state of my local repository when the remote receives new commits?
I have tried:
git fetch
but it doesn't seem to get any update (i.e. git log --all
doesn't show any change).git fetch origin master:master
only updates the master branchgit branch -r
doesn't show anythinggit branch -a
shows only the branches available at the moment of the clonegit remote -v
shows correctly the url of the remote repository.I found the solution reading this answer related to a similar question (I only need to extract the logs, not to pull the code).
After cloning, I've to add:
git config remote.origin.fetch "+*:*"
so that git can keep track of all the branches, even remote ones.
Then, issuing git fetch --all --prune
and git log --all
I can see all the changes.