Re: how to backup git

From: Sverre Hvammen Johansen <hvammen@gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2008, 06:40 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20080512T062707-662@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4827DEF6.1050005@gmail.com>

bill lam <cbill.lam <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, this should be a simple question. How to backup a git repository but 
> excluding files that not under versioned?  If I cp or tar or rsync the 
> directory. All non-versioned files are added.

A repository can be backed up by backing up the .git directory.

If you want to back up the HEAD commit, use git-archive as follows:

  $ git archive --prefix=my-backup/ HEAD | gzip >my-backup.tar.gz

If you want to back up the working directory, commit it to a temporary branch before you use 'git archive'.

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Sverre Hvammen Johansen