Re: Newbie Query

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 21:34 UTC
Message-ID: <200901201534.16571.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <49763D2B.1000607@morey-chaisemartin.com>

On Tuesday 2009 January 20 15:07:55 Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:

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>I did the rookie mistkae on the central server to create the main
>reposity in non-bare mode. So i need to checkout the HEAD revision each
>time I push.
>Is there a cleaner way to convert a non-bare git repo into a bare repo
>than cloning it?
>My repo have a lot of remote branch registered, and cloning them to a
>new bare repo mean I'll have to add all those remote branches again
>(except if there is another trick here I don't know about).

Well, if you can make sure no one is pushing into the repo for a bit: clone it and replace the original with a symlink to new, bare one. Your clients will be able to use the same URL, so they should be happy. (I haven't tried this, but it should work.)

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