Re: Publishing Question: First time Pushing to nonexsiting directory

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 19, 2007, 08:33 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk5yea6nh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070219073526.GA26531@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de> writes:

> I thought that there is a command available which I can use to push a
> repository to a remote nonexisting location (that gets created on the
> fly) ...

Sorry, there isn't.

> I thought that I read a comment from Linus(?) long time ago to how to obtain
> that. But I am unable to find the e-mail in my archives. If there is no
> standard way, how do you do it? Just rsync the files and change the
> 'origin'?

What you remember might be this one:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/31351/focus=31610

Even if it isn't, it is worth a read. Look for "The creation of a new archive tends to" and "really _has_ to be separate".

There was another discussion around this topic as well:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/32040/focus=32108

which I think is a possible design in the right direction, but I did not hear much from the users (as you can see in the archive link above) so it hasn't materialized. The only real improvement that came out of the thread is deletion of a branch at the remote site with "git-push :refs/heads/to-be-removed".

Another ancient one is:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/12651/focus=12667