Re: Why not clone to a remote directory over SSH

Carl Baldwin [off-list ref] writes:

It might be cool to enable cloning to a remote over ssh if the remote
doesn't yet exist.

% git clone . machine:/path/to/new/repository

I wonder if that is:

	$ ssh machine 'git clone '`hostname`:`pwd`' /path/to/new/repository'

Obviously you need a working git setup on the other end and
probably need to be much more careful shell-quoting if your
hostname and pwd has metacharacters, but...

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

	$ ssh machine 'git clone '`hostname`:`pwd`' /path/to/new/repository'

Obviously, this only works if the other side can connect to this side via 
ssh. Hmm. Firewalls? Disabled sshd? `hostname` not reliably returning a 
valid address for the remote side?

Hth,
Dscho

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:41:56AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Obviously, this only works if the other side can connect to this side via 
ssh. Hmm. Firewalls? Disabled sshd? `hostname` not reliably returning a 
valid address for the remote side?

If sshd is running locally, you can forward a port back to yourself and
have the remote clone localhost:`pwd`.  Assuming there's a way to clone
using a nonstandard port.

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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

	$ ssh machine 'git clone '`hostname`:`pwd`' /path/to/new/repository'

Obviously, this only works if the other side can connect to this side via 
ssh. Hmm. Firewalls? Disabled sshd? `hostname` not reliably returning a 
valid address for the remote side?

Well, you could also just script it and just do

	ssh machine 'mkdir -p /path/to/new/repository ;
		cd /path/to/new/repo;
		git-init-db'
	git push --all machine:/path/to/new/repository
	ssh machine 'cd /path/to/new/repo ; git checkout'

(and yes, we could obviously make this a "git-create-repo" command, and 
then you could do

	git-send-pack --exec=git-create-repo \
		machine:/path/to/new/repository
		$(git-rev-parse --all)

or something like that).

		Linus

Nick Hengeveld wrote:

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:41:56AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

Obviously, this only works if the other side can connect to this side via 
ssh. Hmm. Firewalls? Disabled sshd? `hostname` not reliably returning a 
valid address for the remote side?

If sshd is running locally, you can forward a port back to yourself and
have the remote clone localhost:`pwd`.  Assuming there's a way to clone
using a nonstandard port.

ssh://host.xz:port/path/to/repo.git

should work. If it doesn't I'll fix it.

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