Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.rc1

Felipe Balbi
2009-07-16T07:23:29Z

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:17:51AM +0200, ext Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:43:21AM +0200, ext Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Is there some sort of guide to the new best practices for handling
> >>>> trees such as git.kernel.org, where one pushes into "foo.git"
> >>>> directly, and there is no checked-out source code at all?
> >>> I think old repositories will be helped if you add
> >>>
> >>> [core]
> >>> bare
> >>>
> >>> to their foo.git/config files.
> >> Thanks. What about cloning new repositories? Real world example:
> >>
> >> Local workstation has /spare/repo/cld/.git repository, with checked-out
> >> working tree.
> >>
> >> I want to publish this tree to the world via a *.kernel.org-like system,
> >> so my task is to
> >>
> >> scp -r /spare/repo/cld/.git remote.example.com:/pub/scm/cld.git
> >>
> >> but if I do this with scp, then future pushes to
> >> remote.example.com:/pub/scm/cld.git emit the warning about updating the
> >> currently checked-out branch -- even though there are no checked-out
> >> files. The checked-out files were not copied in the scp.
> >
> > how about you create the bare repository on the kernel.org-like server
> > and then push cld to it ?
>
> You mean use 'git init-db', like this?
>
> 1) remote: cd /pub/scm ; mkdir cld.git ; GIT_DIR=cld.git git init-db
>
> 2) local: cd /spare/repo/cld ; git push --force --all \
> remote.ex.com/pub/scm/cld.git
>
> I suppose that would work...

yes, exactly :-)

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balbi