Re: Git rescue mission

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Bill Lear wrote:

On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 14:13:47 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writes:

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It's one of the bigger UI warts that got fixed since the last release 
(although it got fixed by better config management, and as such you'll 
only *see* the fixes if you end up doing the initial clone with the new 
git version - if you use a new git version with an old repo, many - but 
not all - bad semantics will remain).
...

With regard to the new version and old repos, am I correct in assuming
that we can upgrade our old repo (a bare one) to the new git by first
installing the new git, and then doing this:

% cd /repos/git
% mv project project.old_git
% git --bare clone project.old_git project

  % git clone --bare project.old_git project

although usually notation project.git is used, so I think it would be

  % git clone --bare project.old_git project.git

"git --bare <cmd>" is equivalent to "git --git-dir=pwd". You want to make
bare clone "git clone --bare", not invoke git command in bare repository
"git --bare <cmd>": there is no repository yet!

You can just edit .git/config (prehaps generate it first
from .git/remotes/origin file using remotes2config.sh script from contrib
section), and move (rename) branches.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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