Re: No working tree repository

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 15, 2010, 18:10 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy6egi2va.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4C17BEB7.90403@cfl.rr.com>

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:

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> I'd like to keep a local copy of the kernel repository mainly for
> searching the history.  The working tree uses up nearly 400mb of disk
> space that I do not normally need.  How can I remove the working tree,
> and keep only the packed repository so I can review the logs, and only
> check out a working copy if I actually want to edit or compile the
> sources?

This is called a "bare" repository. Now, you have the keyword to RTFM ;-).

You can do something like

mv linux-repo linux-tree cd linux-tree mv .git ../linux-repo cd ../linux-repo git config core.bare true

(and optionnaly remove linux-tree/)

or you could have used "git clone --bare" when you cloned the repository.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/