Re: git over rsync+ssh

From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Date: Jul 10, 2008, 10:09 UTC
Message-ID: <g54n4a$kek$2@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080709171721.GA3679@mithlond.arda.local>

Teemu Likonen venit, vidit, dixit 09.07.2008 19:17:

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> Avery Pennarun wrote (2008-07-09 12:02 -0400):
> 
>> I don't know if this will help in your case, but if it will be only
>> you pushing to this repository, one option is to simply create a bare
>> push repository on your local machine, and then manually just
>> rsync+ssh it to the remote machine from the command line as
>> a so-called "push" operation.
> 
> Again, I don't know if this is helpful for Michael, but this "manual"
> rsyncing can be done automatically via hooks/post-receive. Just like
> Avery said, "git push" to a bare repository in a local machine and this
> bare repo has post-receive hook which does "git update-server-info" and
> the rsyncing (or "sitecopy --update" or similar).

Thanks for your hints. Your posts combined made me understand the trick, using the "auxiliary" local repo for the hooks triggering the rsync. I'll hopefully remember it when I need it; in this case, a second repo would not have been very convenient, but I managed to get git running on the server side meanwhile.

Michael