From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Newbie Query Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:05:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20090120191952.GA25322@uts.thewillards.local> <3f4fd2640901201217x22262655w115cc2a25e32865e@mail.gmail.com> <49763D2B.1000607@morey-chaisemartin.com> <200901201534.16571.bss@iguanasuicide.net> <49764647.1080606@morey-chaisemartin.com> <20090120235125.GD17746@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin , "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 21 01:06:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LPQc6-0003nG-8R for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:06:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757135AbZAUAFJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:05:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756870AbZAUAFI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:05:08 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51816 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756792AbZAUAFH (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:05:07 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2009 00:05:05 -0000 Received: from pD9EB302D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO noname) [217.235.48.45] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 21 Jan 2009 01:05:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+R05QJBL+RL76N03eW6NM31eAPHGL04j2AOcQk9l 1N6K88XuaIap8L X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20090120235125.GD17746@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.61 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46:47PM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote: > > > Well I know there are solutions to convert it to a bare repo. > > I was just wondering if there was a "clean" one which really converts > > the repo to a bare one and not create a copy which is bare. > > It has been a long time since I have done this. It used to be that you > could simply "mv foo/.git foo.git" and be done with it. These days I > think you would also need "git config core.bare true". But I haven't > actually tested it recently. Yep, you need to set that option. At least if you initialized your repository with anything newer than v1.5.0-rc1~3^2~2. Ciao, Dscho