---
name: "grok-dumb-pull"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "grokmirror"
version: "2.0.12-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/grok-dumb-pull"
---

# grok-dumb-pull(1)

Update git repositories not managed by grokmirror

## NAME

GROK-DUMB-PULL - Update git repositories not managed by grokmirror

## SYNOPSIS

grok-dumb-pull \[options\] /path/to/repos

## DESCRIPTION

This is a satellite utility that updates repositories not exported via grokmirror manifest. You will need to manually clone these repositories using "git clone --mirror" and then define a cronjob to update them as frequently as you require. Grok-dumb-pull will bluntly execute "git remote update" in each of them.

## OPTIONS

- **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

- **-h, --help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-v, --verbose**

  Be verbose and tell us what you are doing

- **-s, --svn**

  The remotes for these repositories are Subversion

- **-r** *REMOTES,* **--remote-names=***REMOTES*

  Only fetch remotes matching this name (accepts globbing, can be passed multiple times)

- **-u** *POSTHOOK,* **--post-update-hook=***POSTHOOK*

  Run this hook after each repository is updated. Passes full path to the repository as the sole argument.

- **-l** *LOGFILE,* **--logfile=***LOGFILE*

  Put debug logs into this file

## EXAMPLES

The following will update all bare git repositories found in /path/to/repos hourly, and /path/to/special/repo.git daily, fetching only the "github" remote:

```
MAILTO=root
# Update all repositories found in /path/to/repos hourly
0 * * * * mirror /usr/bin/grok-dumb-pull /path/to/repos
# Update /path/to/special/repo.git daily, fetching "github" remote
0 0 * * * mirror /usr/bin/grok-dumb-pull -r github /path/to/special/repo.git
```

Make sure the user "mirror" (or whichever user you specified) is able to write to the repos specified.

## SEE ALSO

- •

  [grok-pull(1)](/grok-pull/1.md)

- •

  [grok-manifest(1)](/grok-manifest/1.md)

- •

  [grok-fsck(1)](/grok-fsck/1.md)

- •

  [git(1)](/git/1.md)

## SUPPORT

Email *tools@linux.kernel.org*.

## AUTHOR

mricon@kernel.org

License: GPLv3+

## COPYRIGHT

The Linux Foundation and contributors