bundles with multiple branches

I tend to work on multiple machines that don't have direct access to each and therefore keep my git repositories in sync using bundles.

This works fine for single branches - but how can I set things up so that I can just

$ git pull <bundle>

or

$ git fetch <bundle>

and have git update all branches?

Regards

Jeff

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe<jeffrey.ratcliffe@gmail.com> wrote:

1. Make sure you've got all of the refs you want in the bundle.  I
usually use `git bundle create ... --all`

2. Set up a remote on the destination side with a url of wherever you
keep bundles (like /media/cdrom) and a fetch line like
refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/source/*

git remote add bundle /media/cdrom git config --replace-all remotes.bundle.fetch refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bundle/*

Since your destination machine is likely not connected to the internet, you may also want copy all of the remotes too. I do that with

git config --add remotes.bundle.fetch refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*

Beware of the use of the name "origin" with setups like this. If you have branches under refs/remotes/origin/ on the machine you use to create the bundle, you will should make sure you don't try to copy refs from refs/heads and refs/remotes/origin to the same place (because refs/remotes/origin is the natural place to store both).

Adam

Thanks for the help

2009/8/23 Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>:

On

$ git pull bundle

or

$ git fetch bundle

I get

fatal: '/media/cdrom': unable to chdir or not a git archive fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Any ideas?

(I used the mount point of the USB stick where the bundles were but the principle is the same)

Regards

Jeff

Sorry, that's supposed to be /media/cdrom/name-of-bundle

2009/8/24 Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>:

Thanks.