bare repositories: packing and fetching
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
Quoted 7 lines · Andy Whitcroft
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
Quoted 7 lines · Andy Whitcroft
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).
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Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git
Hi,
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Quoted 6 lines · Andy Whitcroft
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.
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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