From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:22:38 GMT
Subject: Re: 'typechange' in the git-status output
Message-ID: <20110314192238.GA30378@elie>
In-Reply-To: <1300129161.13980.4.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Hi,

Drew Northup wrote:

> As has been said more than a few times (and is probably somewhere in the
> docs), if you really want to duplicate a git repo you should probably be
> using git to do it.

FWIW I don't agree with this advice.  "cp -a" works perfectly well and
I think that's a valuable thing.

On the other hand, if you want to _back up_ or sneakernet a git repo,
I agree that "git bundle create /path/to/backup.bundle --all" is
better.

Perhaps the user manual could explain this somewhere.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan