Re: Advice for "pseudo public" repository on a USB key for a single contributer project

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 24, 2010, 02:17 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1001231817s265dac68v646d71b688e0ed1e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <554f5f781001231027vd322045hf84e2a16208bcc9f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

2010/1/24 Maxime Lévesque <maxime.levesque@gmail.com>:

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>  Since there are no servers involved, I have used pull command
>  to move my 'HEAD' around :
>
>  after working on machine1 I do :
>
>    commit to machine1Repo
>    machine1Repo  --pull--> USBKeyRepo

I think you mean "push", since what you want is to make the changes in machine1Repo available in USBKeyRepo.

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>  when I switch on machine2 I start by bringing it up to date from the key :
>
>
>    machine2Repo  <--pull-- USBKeyRepo
>
>   and when I'm finished  :
>
>   commit to machine2Repo
>   machine1Repo  --pull--> USBKeyRepo

I think you mean "push" here and s/machine1/machine2/ too, so that would read

  machine2Repo --push--> USBKeyRepo

When you make changes on machine2 and go back to machine1, you need to fetch/pull in your changes, just like you do for machine2Repo:

  machine1Repo  <--pull-- USBKeyRepo

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>   From what I have read my USBKey repo is like a public repo,
>  so I have tried using a bare repo, because since I never work
>  directly on the usb key, the souces on this repo are just
>  adding unnecessary complexity. So far I had no success,
>  because the pull command doesn't recognize my bare repo,
>  it seems that bare repos must me accessed via a daemon process.

What's your config?

Assuming you use master everywhere, I think you could use this in your config:

  [remote "USBKeyRepo"]
    url = /path/to/repo
    fetch = master
  [branch "master"]
    remote = USBKeyRepo
    merge = master

>  Is it wise to use pulls instead of pushes ?

See above. You can't use one "instead of" another - they serve different purposes and don't replace one another.

>  Should I be using a bare repo on my key ?

Definitely, or else you would have a working tree in that repo too but it never gets updated - not to mention all the warnings git would show.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan