Re: Help merging two repo without connection

["Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Luca Siciliano Viglieri wrote:
> Hi,
> i'm trying to keep synched two repositories without always having a  direct
> connection.
...
> I don't thinks its right to have double (or more?) commits. I would have
> expected something like:
>
>
> -- (first commit) -- (second commit)  -- (my patch)--(my second patch)  --
>  (merge?) --
>
>
> The patches were created with git-format-patch and merged with git-am.
> I know that the commits have different sha1 but how can i keep with patches
> or something similar the two repositories exactly synched?

If you use "git bundle" instead of format-patch, you will have an
unreadable binary blob instead of a human-readable patch, but the
sha1s will not change (since the commiter information will be the
same). The remote side will "git pull" the bundle file instead of "git
am"ing it.

Peter Harris