Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 15, 2006, 18:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609152049310.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <eeeqbv$8na$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> No, but perhaps git doesn't detect _where_ is a git repository. With full
> repository git tries to find .git somewhere in the directory, or it's
> parents, if I understand correctly.

Exactly. Since there is no .git directory, git does not know where it should look for the repository.

Try "git --bare fetch".

Hth, Dscho