initializing remote clone but files already there

Yakov Lerner· Jul 20, 2006, 19:41 UTC · lore

There are two machines with slow ssh access. The both have copy of same filetree that was synchronized previously vi rsync. How do I put both trees under git control as if they were clone on one other *but* (1) without creating branches and (2) without copying files over (files are already there) ?

Thanks Yakov

Petr Baudis· Jul 20, 2006, 21:32 UTC · re: Yakov Lerner · lore

Re: initializing remote clone but files already there

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:41:48PM CEST, I got a letter where Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com> said that...

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> There are two machines with slow ssh access. The
> both have copy of same filetree that was synchronized
> previously vi rsync. How do I put both trees under git control
> as if they were clone on one other *but* (1) without creating
> branches and (2) without copying files over (files are already
> there) ?

Put one tree under the git control and examine the initial commit in detail (cg-log -v or git show --pretty=fuller or whatever). Now you want to perform the initial commit in the other tree with exactly the same metadata; log message should be easy, to carry over all the times and stuff, you need to set GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL,DATE} and GIT_COMMITTER_<dtto> based on the other initial commit details. That should result in a same commit id. Then you need to just set up remote branch origin just like you would set up any other remote branch.

Good luck,

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