Instead of copying the ref files around (bad bad!) use git update-ref Note that you can have what you wanted pretty easily to a bare repository when pushing instead of pulling. Use this: git clone –mirror . /tmp/bareclone to create the bare repository that you want to keep completely in synch Now, to synch all … Read more
Is there the whole data of a repository always within .git directory (or in a bare repo), in some kind of format which is able to render all files at any time? Yes, those files and their complete history are stored in .git/packed-refs and .git/refs, and .git/objects. When you clone a repo (bare or not), … Read more
Note: I tested this on a very simple 1-commit repository. Double-check this, read the man pages, and always be happy you’ve backed up before following advice you found on StackOverflow. (You do back up, right?) To convert a –bare repository to a non-bare: Make a .git folder in the top-level of your repository. Move the … Read more
A post-receive hook gets its arguments from stdin, in the form: <oldrev> <newrev> <refname> Since these arguments are coming from stdin, not from a command line argument, you need to use read instead of $1 $2 $3. The post-receive hook can receive multiple branches at once (for example if someone does a git push –all), … Read more
It needs to be a bare repo because a not bare repo would have a working tree (meaning a specific version of that repo checked out and with files visible). Each time you are pushing to a non-bare repo, you have no guarantee that its working tree will reflect what you are pushing, since by … Read more
Another difference between a bare and non-bare repository is that a bare repository does not have a default remote origin repository: ~/Projects$ git clone –bare test bare Initialized empty Git repository in /home/derek/Projects/bare/ ~/Projects$ cd bare ~/Projects/bare$ git branch -a * master ~/Projects/bare$ cd .. ~/Projects$ git clone test non-bare Initialized empty Git repository in … Read more
In short: replace the contents of repo with the contents of repo/.git, then tell the repository that it is now a bare repository. To do this, execute the following commands: cd repo mv .git ../repo.git # renaming just for clarity cd .. rm -fr repo cd repo.git git config –bool core.bare true Note that this … Read more