Re: committing to a checked out branch

[Jeff Brown <jeff@jeffandbetsy.net>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jeff Brown <jeff@jeffandbetsy.net> wrote:
>> The workspace on my server is currently "checked out" so I get the big
>> warning message every time I push to there.  What is the best way to
>> cleanup that working area so I can push to it without the large
>> warning every time I commit.  I know I can set a config variable to
>> squelch the message but that isn't what I want to do.  I want to make
>> the workspace on the server _not_ be checked out.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>
> If you never want to checkout any branches in that repo on your
> server, then what you want is a bare repository. The easiest way to
> create it is as follows:
>
> $ git clone --bare /path/to/repo /path/to/repo.git
>
> Then you can remove /path/to/repo after verifying everything is sane.
> Note the ".git" extension is a convention denoting the repository is
> bare (vs "repo/.git", which implies a repository with a working copy).
>
> j.
>

Very good.  That appears to have worked nicely.  I appreciate the help.

When I create a new repo on my server I have been creating an empty
directory, then git init, then git add some file and commit.  I expect
that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I want
it to be bare.  What is the best approach to creating a cloneable bare
repo?



jb

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