contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Zenaan Harkness]

I needed this quite a bit in the last few days, basic script but
serves my need. I think it would be useful for other beginners if in
$git/contrib/ source dir.

Just a start to a basic script. Needs more tests etc, but it's enough
to get newbies (like me) off to a reasonable start. Handles multiple
input dirs.

PLEASE CC me, as I am not subscribed.

(some SMTP server rejected attachment, so pasting below instead)

Thanks,
Zenaan


#!/bin/bash

# Change one or more normal repos into bare repos:
# See also https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_do_I_make_existing_non-bare_repository_bare.3F

for i in "$@"; do
   echo; echo "----------------------"
   echo Processing $i

   repo="$i"
   repo="`basename $i`"
   tmp_repo="${repo}.git"

   # Insert here: may be exit if any spaces in repo fqn
   # Insert here: check for non-existent repo/.git dir
   # Insert here: check that we are not inside the repo
   # Insert here: add exit/do-nothing if fail to mv dirs etc

   mv $repo/.git $tmp_repo
   git --git-dir=$tmp_repo config core.bare true
   mv $repo ${repo}.bak
   mv $tmp_repo $repo
done

Re: contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Junio C Hamano]

Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:

> I needed this quite a bit in the last few days, basic script but
> serves my need. I think it would be useful for other beginners if in
> $git/contrib/ source dir.
>
> Just a start to a basic script. Needs more tests etc, but it's enough
> to get newbies (like me) off to a reasonable start. Handles multiple
> input dirs.
>
> PLEASE CC me, as I am not subscribed.
>
> (some SMTP server rejected attachment, so pasting below instead)
>
> Thanks,
> Zenaan
>
>
> #!/bin/bash

I do not think you need (nor used) any bash-ism in this script.
Saying "#!/bin/sh" here is cleaner.

>
> # Change one or more normal repos into bare repos:
> # See also https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_do_I_make_existing_non-bare_repository_bare.3F
>
> for i in "$@"; do

	for i
        do

You do not have to say 'in "$@"'; it is implied.

>    echo; echo "----------------------"
>    echo Processing $i

Forgot to dq?

>
>    repo="$i"
>    repo="`basename $i`"
>    tmp_repo="${repo}.git"
>    # Insert here: may be exit if any spaces in repo fqn
>    # Insert here: check for non-existent repo/.git dir
>    # Insert here: check that we are not inside the repo
>    # Insert here: add exit/do-nothing if fail to mv dirs etc
>
>    mv $repo/.git $tmp_repo

Forgot to dq?  i.e.

	mv "$repo/.git" "$tmp_repo"

The same for all the variable references in the remainder of the
script.

More importantly, "mv" would fail if $repo is given as a full
pathname elsewhere in the filesystem that is different from your
current directory where you create $tmp_repo.

>    git --git-dir=$tmp_repo config core.bare true
>    mv $repo ${repo}.bak
>    mv $tmp_repo $repo
> done

contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Zenaan Harkness]

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This question comes up every now and then - how to convert from normal
to bare, or vice versa.

This is just a start to a basic script to go one way. Needs more tests
etc, but it's enough to get newbies (like me) off to a reasonable
start.

PLEASE CC me, as I am not subscribed.

Thanks,
Zenaan

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Re: contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Matthieu Moy]

Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:

>    rm -rf $repo

The user would appreciate if you check that there are no uncommited
changes and no untracked files (at least no untracked and not ignored
files) before running this.

Also, it's "$repo", not just $repo, or you'll get surprising behavior if
$repo contain spaces.

The safe way would actually be stg like:

  rm -fr -- "$repo"

in case $repo starts with a dash.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 5/27/13, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> writes:
>
>>    rm -rf $repo
>
> The user would appreciate if you check that there are no uncommited
> changes and no untracked files (at least no untracked and not ignored
> files) before running this.
>
> Also, it's "$repo", not just $repo, or you'll get surprising behavior if
> $repo contain spaces.
>
> The safe way would actually be stg like:
>
>   rm -fr -- "$repo"

Thanks.

In my later email, I changed it to mv - should have highlighted there
was a change. I got bitten, on a small repo thankfully, where a perms
or ownership problem caused the whole repo to disappear. So mv it is
:)

BTW, I've subscribed for a little while now...

Thanks again
Zenaan

Re: contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Fredrik Gustafsson]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 07:43:13PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> In my later email, I changed it to mv - should have highlighted there
> was a change. I got bitten, on a small repo thankfully, where a perms
> or ownership problem caused the whole repo to disappear. So mv it is
> :)

Do you really need bash for that script or will it do with sh? I think
sh is preferred.

Also a mv instead of a rm will require a lot of disc space if you have a
big repository.

-- 
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Fredrik Gustafsson

tel: 0733-608274
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RE: contrib/git-normal-to-bare.sh

[Felipe Contreras]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> This question comes up every now and then - how to convert from normal
> to bare, or vice versa.
> 
> This is just a start to a basic script to go one way. Needs more tests
> etc, but it's enough to get newbies (like me) off to a reasonable
> start.
> 
> PLEASE CC me, as I am not subscribed.

You do not need to ask to be CC'ed. Any mailing list properly configued would
not munge the Reply-To header, so anybody replying to this mail would reply to
you.

Git is a properly configured mailing list, just like all the mailing list in
vger.kernel.org.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras