Re: Newbie experience with push over ssh

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 16:47 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqfy98660o.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <17875.14305.910866.273778@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

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> % cat ~/.gitconfig
> [alias]
> 	scp !scp
> 	rcp !rcp
> % git scp -rp . me@remotehost:/directory

[ in this case, I'd prefer using rsync ]

Well, this does not the same as being able to really use git to push. First, you have no guarantee that the repository will be consistent during the push. I belive the git repository format is relatively safe with this regard since git doesn't rewrite data in-place, so the worst that can happen is probably that someone gets a reference to a not-yet-uploaded object.

But the real advantage of using the version control system to upload is to avoid the case of

$ cd /path/to/dumb/project $ rsync ./ path:to/very/important/project/

since rsync/scp are not designed to look at the content of the destination before overriding it. Using git, I believe such miss-manipulation could lead to having irrelevant data in a repository, but not to data-loss.

-- 
Matthieu