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From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <ml2news@free.fr>
Subject: Re: How to create and keep up to date a naked/bare repository?
Date: 27 Jan 2006 14:34:28 +0100
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Thanks and sorry for making you write this long message...

junkio@cox.net (Junio C Hamano) writes:
> [...]
>  - A mirror of somebody else's work.
>=20
>    I suspect this is what you are doing.  Instead of individual
>    developers pulling directly from upstream, you would want to
>    fetch and update the bare cloned repository and have your
>    developers fetch from it.

Correct.
=20
> Let's outline how.
>=20
> What I would suggest is to arrange things like this:
>=20
>    +-------------------------------------------+
>    | Your upstream repository                  |
>    | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ |
>    +-------------------------------------------+=20
>       |                                      ^
>       | (1)                                  | (5)
>       |                                      |
>       v                                      |
>    +-----------------+                     +----------------+
>    | Your central    |        (4)          | My development |
>    | bare repository |-------------------->| tree           |
>    +-----------------+                     +----------------+
>       |      ^
>       | (2)  | (3)
>       |      |
>       v      |
>    +------------------+
>    | Your developers' |+
>    | trees            ||+
>    +------------------+||
>      +-----------------+|
>       +-----------------+
> [...]
> Does this make sense now?

It totally does. I guess this email could end up in the Documentation
folder in some way!?

--=20
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
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                 plus puissant que le vivant".
           -- Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry, Citadelle --