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Move repository from OS X to Windows

Subject: Move repository from OS X to Windows

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3 messages between Nov 11, 2009 and Nov 11, 2009.

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Thomas Singer· Nov 11, 2009, 13:32 UTC · lore

Hi,

I've cloned a very large repository on OS X and want to move that to Windows (trying to avoid to clone the repository a second time). What steps should I do to make it working (currently, I'm getting an error on pull/merge that "Entry 'foo' is not uptodate. Cannot merge.")?

Thanks in advance, Tom

Pascal Obry· Nov 11, 2009, 15:53 UTC · re: Thomas Singer · lore

Re: Move repository from OS X to Windows

Thomas,

> I've cloned a very large repository on OS X and want to move that to Windows
> (trying to avoid to clone the repository a second time). What steps should I
> do to make it working (currently, I'm getting an error on pull/merge that
> "Entry 'foo' is not uptodate. Cannot merge.")?

Is that a git-svn clone?

Otherwise I do not see why you avoid a second clone. Cloning from your windows machine the OSX repo won't be slower than cloning from the original repo? Or I missed something...

If you are speaking about a git-svn clone, I understand. In this case I generally I just rsync the .git directory from one machine to the other:

    $ mkdir project
    $ cd project
    $ rsync -a machine:/path/to/project/.git .
    $ git reset --hard HEAD

And you are done.

Pascal.

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David Aguilar· Nov 11, 2009, 17:08 UTC · re: Thomas Singer · lore

Re: Move repository from OS X to Windows

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:32:40PM +0100, Thomas Singer wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I've cloned a very large repository on OS X and want to move that to Windows
> (trying to avoid to clone the repository a second time). What steps should I
> do to make it working (currently, I'm getting an error on pull/merge that
> "Entry 'foo' is not uptodate. Cannot merge.")?

Check the git documentation for "core.filemode" and "core.autocrlf".

My guess is that you need to set core.filemode false. If it's not that then look into core.autocrlf.

Good luck,

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		David