From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:04:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Can I zip a git repo without losing anything?
Message-ID: <20121126170441.a6c94f108bc57cca8bcfe679@domain007.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-uhDcQg0BuEdHDTa6qVqLCeB-LE1GZtEqHgY_j1--XodsDKw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:55:10 +0000
Carl Smith <carl.input@gmail.com> wrote:

> After suggesting using zip files to move our projects around, I was
> told that you can not zip a git repo without loosing all the history.
> This didn't make sense to me, but two people told me the same thing,
> so I wasn't sure. I think they may have been confusing the zipped file
> you can download from GitHub with a zipped git repo.
> 
> If someone could put me straight on this, I'd really appreciate it.

To amend the already provided answer -- if you need to move repos
around using the sneakernet, the tool you should probably use is
`git bundle`.