From: Jakub Narebski Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:38:21 GMT Subject: Re: Git rescue mission Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <17867.45437.922483.805945@lisa.zopyra.com> Bill Lear wrote: > On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 14:13:47 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes: >>... >> It's one of the bigger UI warts that got fixed since the last release >> (although it got fixed by better config management, and as such you'll >> only *see* the fixes if you end up doing the initial clone with the new >> git version - if you use a new git version with an old repo, many - but >> not all - bad semantics will remain). >> ... > > With regard to the new version and old repos, am I correct in assuming > that we can upgrade our old repo (a bare one) to the new git by first > installing the new git, and then doing this: > > % cd /repos/git > % mv project project.old_git > % git --bare clone project.old_git project % git clone --bare project.old_git project although usually notation project.git is used, so I think it would be % git clone --bare project.old_git project.git "git --bare " is equivalent to "git --git-dir=pwd". You want to make bare clone "git clone --bare", not invoke git command in bare repository "git --bare ": there is no repository yet! You can just edit .git/config (prehaps generate it first from .git/remotes/origin file using remotes2config.sh script from contrib section), and move (rename) branches. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git