From: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:46:47 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie Query Message-ID: <49764647.1080606@morey-chaisemartin.com> In-Reply-To: <200901201534.16571.bss@iguanasuicide.net> 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. 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.