# bare repositories: packing and fetching 4 messages from 2006-09-15 to 2006-09-15. Participants: Andy Whitcroft, Jakub Narebski, Johannes Schindelin, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5575 ## Andy Whitcroft, 2006-09-15 18:04 Subject: bare repositories: packing and fetching Message-ID: <450AEB37.3090909@shadowen.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/450AEB37.3090909%40shadowen.org ``` I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree. As this was only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis. That does not appear to be the case? Both git fetch and git repack say 'not a git repository .git' and bail. Is this expected behaviour. Do I have to have all the checked out files? -apw ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2006-09-15 18:11 Subject: Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/eeeqbv%248na%241%40sea.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <450AEB37.3090909@shadowen.org> ``` Andy Whitcroft wrote: > I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree. As this was > only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could > clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis. That > does not appear to be the case? Both git fetch and git repack say 'not > a git repository .git' and bail. > > Is this expected behaviour. Do I have to have all the checked out files? No, but perhaps git doesn't detect _where_ is a git repository. With full repository git tries to find .git somewhere in the directory, or it's parents, if I understand correctly. If running git commands from the inside of bare repository doesn't work, try setting enviromental variable GIT_DIR (e.g. GIT_DIR=git.git git fetch origin), or with git 1.4.2 or newer with --git-dir option (e.g. git --git-dir=git fetch origin). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2006-09-15 18:50 Subject: Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0609152049310.19042%40wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: ``` Hi, On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree. As this was > > only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could > > clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis. That > > does not appear to be the case? Both git fetch and git repack say 'not > > a git repository .git' and bail. > > > > Is this expected behaviour. Do I have to have all the checked out files? > > No, but perhaps git doesn't detect _where_ is a git repository. With full > repository git tries to find .git somewhere in the directory, or it's > parents, if I understand correctly. Exactly. Since there is no .git directory, git does not know where it should look for the repository. Try "git --bare fetch". Hth, Dscho ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2006-09-15 20:44 Subject: Re: bare repositories: packing and fetching Message-ID: <7vzmd0g8rk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vzmd0g8rk.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: <450AEB37.3090909@shadowen.org> ``` Andy Whitcroft writes: > I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree. As this was > only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could > clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis. That > does not appear to be the case? Both git fetch and git repack say 'not > a git repository .git' and bail. > > Is this expected behaviour. Do I have to have all the checked out files? cd $that_repository && GIT_DIR=. git fetch ```