bare repositories: packing and fetching

bare repositories: packing and fetching

[Andy Whitcroft]

I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree.  As this was
only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could
clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis.  That
does not appear to be the case?  Both git fetch and git repack say 'not
a git repository .git' and bail.

Is this expected behaviour.  Do I have to have all the checked out files?

-apw

Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching

[Jakub Narebski]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree.  As this was
> only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could
> clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis.  That
> does not appear to be the case?  Both git fetch and git repack say 'not
> a git repository .git' and bail.
> 
> Is this expected behaviour.  Do I have to have all the checked out files?

No, but perhaps git doesn't detect _where_ is a git repository. With full
repository git tries to find .git somewhere in the directory, or it's
parents, if I understand correctly.

If running git commands from the inside of bare repository doesn't work, try
setting enviromental variable GIT_DIR (e.g. GIT_DIR=git.git git fetch
origin), or with git 1.4.2 or newer with --git-dir option (e.g. git
--git-dir=git fetch origin).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> > I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree.  As this was
> > only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could
> > clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis.  That
> > does not appear to be the case?  Both git fetch and git repack say 'not
> > a git repository .git' and bail.
> > 
> > Is this expected behaviour.  Do I have to have all the checked out files?
> 
> No, but perhaps git doesn't detect _where_ is a git repository. With full
> repository git tries to find .git somewhere in the directory, or it's
> parents, if I understand correctly.

Exactly. Since there is no .git directory, git does not know where it 
should look for the repository.

Try "git --bare fetch".

Hth,
Dscho

Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching

[Junio C Hamano]

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

> I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree.  As this was
> only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could
> clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis.  That
> does not appear to be the case?  Both git fetch and git repack say 'not
> a git repository .git' and bail.
>
> Is this expected behaviour.  Do I have to have all the checked out files?

cd $that_repository && GIT_DIR=. git fetch