From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:44:15 GMT
Subject: Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching
Message-ID: <7vzmd0g8rk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <450AEB37.3090909@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

> I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree.  As this was
> only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could
> clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis.  That
> does not appear to be the case?  Both git fetch and git repack say 'not
> a git repository .git' and bail.
>
> Is this expected behaviour.  Do I have to have all the checked out files?

cd $that_repository && GIT_DIR=. git fetch