Re: rsync vs. git-push/pull ? (+kudus)

["Ramagudi Naziir" <naziirr@gmail.com>]

Hi David,

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:27 AM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have several local git repositories on my machine. I'm the only
>> user, and use them only locally. Now, sometimes when I need to work
>> remotely, I just rsync my repositories to my laptop, and keep working
>> there. When I finish (few hours, days or sometimes weeks later), I
>> just rsync everything back to my local git repositories on my main
>> workstation, and continue working there.
>>
>> Now I was wondering whether it's OK or whether there are bad
>> implication I might not think of working this way. For example, maybe
>> some of these little git files are named differently on each machine,
>> and rsyncing them back and forth makes me piling a lot of clutter (in
>> that case maybe git-gc will clean up everything). Or maybe something
>> else horrid is going on and I really should just use git-push or pull.
>
> the git files are names by their content so you don't need to worry about
> them being named differently

But can I end up having a lot of clutter ? e.g. if these files change,
then rsync will copy the new files, and the old ones will still be
kept, piling up like crud. is this correct ? is it problematic ? will
git-gc fix it ?