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Re: committing to a checked out branch

From: Jeff Brown <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:47

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jay Soffian [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jeff Brown [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
The workspace on my server is currently "checked out" so I get the big
warning message every time I push to there.  What is the best way to
cleanup that working area so I can push to it without the large
warning every time I commit.  I know I can set a config variable to
squelch the message but that isn't what I want to do.  I want to make
the workspace on the server _not_ be checked out.

Thanks for the help.
If you never want to checkout any branches in that repo on your
server, then what you want is a bare repository. The easiest way to
create it is as follows:

$ git clone --bare /path/to/repo /path/to/repo.git

Then you can remove /path/to/repo after verifying everything is sane.
Note the ".git" extension is a convention denoting the repository is
bare (vs "repo/.git", which implies a repository with a working copy).

j.
Very good.  That appears to have worked nicely.  I appreciate the help.

When I create a new repo on my server I have been creating an empty
directory, then git init, then git add some file and commit.  I expect
that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I want
it to be bare.  What is the best approach to creating a cloneable bare
repo?



jb

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