From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:25:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Cloning empty repositories, was Re: What is the idea for bare repositories?
Message-ID: <7vejetr7vn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqd4ud6c0z.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> (2)
>
> $ mkdir ~/bare-repo
> $ cd ~/bare-repo
> $ git --bare init
> $ cd
> $ mkdir local/non-bare
> $ cd local/non-bare
> $ git init

...

If your publishing repo is local like the above, then

 $ mkdir /tmp/junk && cd /tmp/junk
 $ git init; tar xf /tmp/project.tar; git add .; ... populate ... 
 $ git commit -m initial
 $ cd /else/where/to/publish
 $ git clone --bare /tmp/junk myproject.git
 $ rm -fr /tmp/junk

would be enough to get your published repository started, isn't
it?  Then wouldn't:

 $ cd $HOME
 $ git clone /else/where/to/publish/myproject.git myproject

set up your ~/myproject exactly the same way as other people who
will work with that published repository?