Re: Newbie Query

From: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <devel@morey-chaisemartin.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID: <49764647.1080606@morey-chaisemartin.com>
In-Reply-To: <200901201534.16571.bss@iguanasuicide.net>

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit :

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> 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. 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.)
>

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. 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.