# bundles with multiple branches

5 messages from 2009-08-23 to 2009-08-27. Participants: Jeffrey Ratcliffe, Adam Brewster.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20708

## Jeffrey Ratcliffe, 2009-08-23 20:36

Subject: bundles with multiple branches
Message-ID: <30e395780908231336p403c2171ie383a81c3d1bb020@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/30e395780908231336p403c2171ie383a81c3d1bb020%40mail.gmail.com

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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

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## Adam Brewster, 2009-08-23 20:52

Subject: Re: bundles with multiple branches
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c376da900908231352o5c5746c0h9e39b80adede66e8%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <30e395780908231336p403c2171ie383a81c3d1bb020@mail.gmail.com>

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

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

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## Jeffrey Ratcliffe, 2009-08-23 21:04

Subject: Re: bundles with multiple branches
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/30e395780908231404k7240dbacu5c258d9816e35dd7%40mail.gmail.com
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Thanks for the help

2009/8/23 Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>:
> git remote add bundle /media/cdrom
> git config --replace-all remotes.bundle.fetch refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bundle/*
> git config --add remotes.bundle.fetch refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*

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

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## Adam Brewster, 2009-08-24 21:42

Subject: Re: bundles with multiple branches
Message-ID: <c376da900908241442t385d492cm6925fd2d8abad848@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c376da900908241442t385d492cm6925fd2d8abad848%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <30e395780908231404k7240dbacu5c258d9816e35dd7@mail.gmail.com>

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>
> 2009/8/23 Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>:
>> git remote add bundle /media/cdrom
>> git config --replace-all remotes.bundle.fetch refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bundle/*
>> git config --add remotes.bundle.fetch refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*
>
> 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
>

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

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## Jeffrey Ratcliffe, 2009-08-27 20:03

Subject: Re: bundles with multiple branches
Message-ID: <30e395780908271303y3cff747dpce482379fd0c54cf@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/30e395780908271303y3cff747dpce482379fd0c54cf%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <c376da900908241442t385d492cm6925fd2d8abad848@mail.gmail.com>

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2009/8/24 Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com>:
>> fatal: '/media/cdrom': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>
> Sorry, that's supposed to be /media/cdrom/name-of-bundle

Thanks.

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