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Re: Make a non-bare repo bare.

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Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date
Jul 15, 2009, 21:48 UTC
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On 07/15/2009 11:43 PM, Tim Visher wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> I recently had occasion to make a previously non-bare repo bare.  Is
> there any way to do this?  It will not allow me to delete a branch
> that I'm on so I wasn't sure how to proceed.
Just do "mv repo/.git repo.git; rm -rf repo" (with care!).
Paolo
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