Re: how to use two bare repositories?

From: Oliver Kullmann <o.kullmann@swansea.ac.uk>
Date: Apr 11, 2008, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20080411234430.GQ29940@cs-wsok.swansea.ac.uk>

Sorry, by error I didn't post this message to the list, but it might be interesting for somebody, so here the copy.

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From: Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: how to use two bare repositories?
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:17:52PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Now I want to create another public repository B,
> > from which anonymous pull is possible via http.
> > So B should be another bare repository.
> >
> > The problem is now that it seems not to be possible
> > to update B:
> >
> > 1. pulling from A is not possible since B is bare;
> > 2. fetching from A seems to work, checking the content of
> >    B via gitk seems to indicate that B has been updated
> >  --- however pulling from B doesn't work
> 
> The usual answer when you see a word "http" mentioned is...
> 
> 	how are you arranging update-server-info to be run whenever B is
> 	updated?

Aha, I see: So first I fetch, and then I run update-server-info. Just tried it out, and it worked. Thanks!

(By the way, since B is updated anyway only by my package-building script, it's no problem to run update-server-info then (by the script).)

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