Re: Newbie Query

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 22:24 UTC
Message-ID: <200901201624.30131.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <49764647.1080606@morey-chaisemartin.com>

On Tuesday 2009 January 20 15:46:47 Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:

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>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit :
>> On Tuesday 2009 January 20 15:07:55 Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
>>> I did the rookie mistkae on the central server to create the main
>>> reposity in non-bare mode.
>>> Is there a cleaner way to convert a non-bare git repo into a bare repo
>>> than cloning it?

No.

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>>> 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.)
>
>Well I know there are solutions to convert it to a bare repo.
>I was just wondering if there was a "clean" one which really converts
>the repo to a bare one and not create a copy which is bare.

The clone *is* a way to convert, with the added advantage of not trashing the original during the conversion, by putting the results in a different location. In fact, it's probably *cleaner* than any convert-in-place.

>I don't know how bare/non-bare is managed but I guess both types of repo
>are not differing by much, so it'd be great to have a function to
>convert from one to another.

I couldn't tell you all the differences, but I don't think there are many either.

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