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Re: git local repo export

From
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2008, 14:01 UTC
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<20080608140122.GB7020@cvg>
In-Reply-To
<20080608135949.GE19777@albany.tokkee.org>
[Sebastian Harl - Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:59:49PM +0200]
| Hi Cyrill,
| 
| On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 05:46:01PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| > 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
| 
| -- 
| Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/
| 
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| Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.         -- Benjamin Franklin
| 
Thanks a lot!
		- Cyrill -
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