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From: "Neal Kreitzinger" <neal@rsss.com>
Subject: Re: clone --bare vs push
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 22:40:32 -0600
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"Levend Sayar" <levendsayar@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:AANLkTi=RNDYrRbyEJXA_c30JEVr=SYUQ01cfA3FyWpLT@mail.gmail.com...
> Hi, all.
>
> We cloned a repo from github on our local server. Say X for this. At
> that repo, we did
>
> git clone --bare X y.git
>
> Now y.git is ready for other machines to clone.
>
> To update our upstream repo X, we do
>
> git pull
>
> and then
>
> git push --all
>
> to update y.git.
>
> Now questions:
>
> 1) When I compare X/.git directory and y.git directory there are many
> objects missing in y.git. What is the reason ?
>
> 2) git clone --bare is too fast. My .git directory is nearly 1GB. How
> can it be copied that much fast ?
>
> 3) Is this more safe then git pull, git push
>
> rm -rf y.git
> git pull
> git clone --bare X y.git
>
> Namely bare cloning each time when we update our main repo ?
>
> TIA
>
> _lvnd_
> (^_^)

you can also use the file:// url format to create a complete copy and not 
use hardlinks.  see git-clone manpage.

e.g. git clone --bare file:///fullpathto/X y.git

v/r,
Neal