Re: Publishing Question: First time Pushing to nonexsiting directory

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de> wrote:
> I thought that there is a command available which I can use to push a
> repository to a remote nonexisting location (that gets created on the
> fly) like in the following scenario:
> 
>         - Create a git project on my laptop
>         - Check in a few files
>         - Publish the git repository to 
> 
>         (thinkpad) [~/work/astro-tg] git push 131.188.30.59:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro/
>         fatal: '/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>         fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> I thought that I read a comment from Linus(?) long time ago to how to obtain
> that. But I am unable to find the e-mail in my archives. If there is no
> standard way, how do you do it? Just rsync the files and change the
> 'origin'?

SSH into the remote system that you want to push to, then run
init-db there:

  $ ssh 131.188.30.59 git --git-dir=/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git init-db

Configure that as a remote, e.g. origin:

  $ git remote add origin 131.188.30.59:/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/repositories/private/astro.git

Now push to there:

  $ git push origin master:master

And maybe fetch back to create the tracking branches:

  $ git fetch


Note that in my examples above I added ".git" to the end of the
repository path, as this is rather typical for a 'bare repository'
(that is, a repository without a working directory attached).
You usually don't want to push into a repository with a working
directory, but it is supported and a lot of folks do it.

I also assumed Git 1.5.0 on your thinkpad end, as git-remote was
recently added in that version.  Handy tool.  :)

-- 
Shawn.