Re: backup git repo on every commit

[Israel Garcia <igalvarez@gmail.com>]

On 10/13/09, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Israel Garcia <igalvarez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry to ask again, but I'm a little confuse about how git work in my
>> case.
>> I use gitosis on a server where I have all repos
>> (/usr/local/git/repositories/), so different people clone their repos
>> on their computers. What I want is to backup, on gitosis server, all
>> repos in /backups/git/repositories/ after every commit. So, my
>> questions are:
>>
>> Do I have to run these two comands on tha gitosis server?
>
> Yes.
>
>> The post-commit are execute on gitosis server or on the remote pc?
>
> Actually, you need the post-update hook.  post-commit doesn't run
> on the gitosis server.
>
> I suggested post-commit because I thought you were talking about
> backing up your local working directory each time you called
> "git commit".  But since you are actually backing up every
> "git push" you need to use the hooks invoked by that instead.
Hi Shawn,

Thanks for your answer,  could you please put here how you think
post-update file should be setup? Remember in my case I want to backup
every repo to /backups/git folder for example.

Thanks in advance.
regrads

Israel.
>
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> Shawn.
>


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Regards;
Israel Garcia