Re: backup git repo on every commit

From: Israel Garcia <igalvarez@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2009, 14:25 UTC
Message-ID: <194a2c240910120725u72cdb588p3c66bc730e6953d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091012141544.GF9261@spearce.org>

Hi Shawn,

That's OK, but I want to backup my git repo locally because I don't have another remote git server. Can you modify your post-commit code to backup the repo to /backups/git folder instead of using another external git repo?

thanks in advance. regards Israel.

On 10/12/09, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Israel Garcia <igalvarez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Which is the simplest  way to backup a git repository after every commit?
>
> Add a commit hook to push to another location, e.g.:
>
>   git remote add --mirror backup you@another.host:path/to/backup.git
>
>   cat >.git/hooks/post-commit
>   #!/bin/sh
>   git push backup
>   ^D
>
>   chmod a+x .git/hooks/post-commit
>
> --
> Shawn.
>

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Regards;
Israel Garcia