Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.rc1

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:43:21AM +0200, ext Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Is there some sort of guide to the new best practices for handling
>>>> trees such as git.kernel.org, where one pushes into "foo.git"
>>>> directly, and there is no checked-out source code at all?
>>> I think old repositories will be helped if you add
>>>
>>> 	[core]
>>>         	bare
>>>
>>> to their foo.git/config files.
>> Thanks.  What about cloning new repositories?  Real world example:
>>
>> Local workstation has /spare/repo/cld/.git repository, with checked-out 
>> working tree.
>>
>> I want to publish this tree to the world via a *.kernel.org-like system, 
>> so my task is to
>>
>> 	scp -r /spare/repo/cld/.git remote.example.com:/pub/scm/cld.git
>>
>> but if I do this with scp, then future pushes to 
>> remote.example.com:/pub/scm/cld.git emit the warning about updating the 
>> currently checked-out branch -- even though there are no checked-out 
>> files.  The checked-out files were not copied in the scp.
> 
> how about you create the bare repository on the kernel.org-like server
> and then push cld to it ?