From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make a non-bare repo bare.
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:19:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090716021921.GA29139@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5E4EBA.4050708@gnu.org>
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:48:42PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/15/2009 11:43 PM, Tim Visher wrote:
> >I recently had occasion to make a previously non-bare repo bare. Is
> >there any way to do this? It will not allow me to delete a branch
> >that I'm on so I wasn't sure how to proceed.
>
> Just do "mv repo/.git repo.git; rm -rf repo" (with care!).
That used to work, but these days there is a "core.bare" config variable
so that git doesn't have to guess whether you are in a bare repo. So you
should also do:
$ git config core.bare true
in the resulting repo (or just before, since your "mv" is obviously not
a git command that would care).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-15 21:43 Make a non-bare repo bare Tim Visher
2009-07-15 21:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-07-16 0:54 ` Tim Visher
2009-07-16 2:19 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-07-16 2:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-16 8:51 ` Graeme Geldenhuys
2009-07-16 8:55 ` Mike Ralphson
2009-07-16 20:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-17 3:59 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-07-16 11:39 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-07-16 11:47 ` Tim Visher
2009-07-16 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-07-17 1:20 ` Sitaram Chamarty
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