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Re: how to backup git

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 12, 2008, 13:28 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
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> >>>>> "bill" == bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     bill> Hello, this should be a simple question.  How to backup a git
>     bill> repository but excluding files that not under versioned?  If I
>     bill> cp or tar or rsync the directory.  All non-versioned files are
>     bill> added.
> 
> I'd rsync just the .git directory.

Note that this is necessary if you want to keep the reflogs (clone would not copy them).

Ciao, Dscho

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