Merge pull request #3 from damien-list/master

[git-mirror.git] / README.md

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@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ The next step is to add this as a webhook to the GitHub repository you want to
 sync with, to create a fresh SSH key and configure it as deployment key for the 
 repository, and to configure git-mirror accordingly. For additional security, 
 one should also configure a shared HMAC secret, such that the webhook can verify 
-that the data indeed comes from GitHub.
+that the data indeed comes from GitHub.  On the git-mirror side, the HMAC secret
+is configured with the `hmac-secret` repository option.
 
 To make your job easier, there is a script `github-add-hooks.py` that can do 
 all this for you. It assumes that the repository exists on the GitHub side, but 
@@ -126,6 +127,10 @@ either gitolite or GitHub will be visible on the other side
 immediately. This applies even to pull requests that you merge in the
 GitHub web interface.
 
+The script will only sync branches when they get pushed to. To initialize the
+GitHub repository with all the branches that already exist, you can do `git push
+--all git@github.com:user/repo`.
+
 ## Source, License
 
 You can find the sources in the [git