Re: Newbie questions about moving around repositories

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2007, 14:18 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706150718t2382648aw25959844f52c5c02@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1b5a37350706150652y7710c380l79e785cba8f6b02e@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/15/07, Ed Schofield <edschofield@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 1. I would like to move my repository (including all branches) from
> directory A to a directory B on a different filesystem. Can I use
> git-clone for this? It seems that git-clone creates remote-tracking
> branches, but I want to keep all of the branches as local branches so
> I can remove the original repository.

Just copy it.

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> 2. I can't just move the entire directory A, because I get
>
> Error in startup script: error: object directory
> A/../A-cvs-git/.git/objects does not exist; check
> .git/objects/info/alternates

... but fix that .git/objects/info/alternates files in the repos left to point to the new location of the moved directory.

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> I think I originally created the repository by cloning from my
> A-cvs-git/ directory with git-clone --shared, but I don't quite
> remember. So I suppose I want a way to stop using the alternates
> mechanism and make my repository self-contained in one directory. Is
> this possible?

git repack -f, and remove the alternates, probably. Otherwise you can just copy .git/objects directory into all related repos, remove alternates there and you're free.

> Will I then be free to move the directory?

Yes