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Re: git local repo export

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Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
Date
Jun 8, 2008, 13:59 UTC
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<20080608135949.GE19777@albany.tokkee.org>
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Hi Cyrill,
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 05:46:01PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
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> could someone say me if there is a way to pack git repo in a single
> file somehow?  I mean - sometime I have to move _whole_ git database
> by some media without net access so I can't fetch it. Usually I just
> create tar.gz for .git directory and copy it to some media then unpack
> it in place where I need. But maybe there is some other more elegant
> way exist to do the same?
Imho, that's a fairly elegant way to do that.

You might want to have a look at git-bundle as well. However, that's not suited for moving the whole repository, but rather to exchange patches without being able to use any network based protocols.

HTH, Sebastian

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