From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:48:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Working with Git and CVS in a team.
Message-ID: <20080615204841.GA10270@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200806152222.50119.me@misto.ch>

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:22:49PM +0200, Mirko Stocker wrote:

> >   mkdir bare.git && (cd bare.git && git init)
> >   mkdir cvsimport-hack && ln -s ../bare.git cvsimport-hack/.git
> >   git cvsimport -C cvsimport-hack
> 
> Uh, ok.. :) Thanks. 
> 
> I just wondered, do I even need the additional bare repository? If I use 
> git-cvsimport with -i, then it creates only the .git without doing a 
> checkout, then we could just clone this one from the clients and pull/push to 
> it?

Sure. From the client perspective, there's not really a difference
between a bare repo and one with a working directory. Using just one
repo with a working directory will mean you just have one extra checkout
on the server, which wastes a little space.

-Peff