From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] provide advance warning of some future pack default changes Message-ID: <7vprx553u4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20071217223055.GI13515@fieldses.org> "J. Bruce Fields" writes: > Hm. We tell people to set up public repo's by doing something like: > > git clone --bare ~/proj proj.git > touch proj.git/git-daemon-export-ok > scp -r proj.git example.com: > > Is that going to hit the same problem if the public server has an older > git version? It will, but I think you should teach people --mirror pushing these days, which was specifically invented for priming the public repository. That way, the administrator at example.com, as long as he initializes an empty repository with suitable daemon-export-ok and necessary hooks (which can be automated via templates), does not even have to allow you a full ssh access.