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remote: disallow some nonsensical option combinations
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It doesn't make sense to use "-m" on a mirror, since "-m"
sets up the HEAD symref in the remotes namespace, but with
mirror, we are by definition not using a remotes namespace.

Similarly, it does not make much sense to specify refspecs
with --mirror. For a mirror you plan to push to, those
refspecs will be ignored. For a mirror you are fetching
from, there is no point in mirroring, since the refspec
specifies everything you want to grab.

There is one case where "--mirror -t <X>" would be useful.
Because <X> is used as-is in the refspec, and because we
append it to to refs/, you could mirror a subset of the
hierarchy by doing:

  git remote add --mirror -t 'tags/*'

But using anything besides a single branch as an argument to
"-t" is not documented and only happens to work, so closing
it off is not a serious regression.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano committed Mar 30, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ static int add(int argc, const char **argv)
if (argc < 2)
usage_with_options(builtin_remote_add_usage, options);

if (mirror && master)
die("specifying a master branch makes no sense with --mirror");
if (mirror && track.nr)
die("specifying branches to track makes no sense with --mirror");

name = argv[0];
url = argv[1];

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