Re: No working tree repository

From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Jun 16, 2010, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006160933270.10800@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <4C17C77C.9000002@cfl.rr.com>

Phillip Susi:

> It seems that --bare on clone will prevent the checkout of the local 
> working tree. If I decide I do want the sources today I can just check 
> them out, but what is the proper way to do the reverse?

Then I would recommend creating another clone. I usually do a

   git clone --reference path/to/bare server:path/to/origin newcheckout

to create clones with working trees, without having to pay the penalty of having (yet) another copy of the objects under .git (and with .git in the order of 400 megabytes, and several working copies, it does pay off).

Maintaining this is a lot easier than constantly adding and removing a working tree from the repository.

If you only need a single file, "git show commit:path" should work, even on a bare repository.

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