Re: Apply git bundle to source tree?

["Andreas Grünbacher" <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>]

Hi Taylor,

Am Fr., 18. Sept. 2020 um 16:02 Uhr schrieb Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 01:13:52PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's a way to apply a particular head in a bundle
> > to a source tree, for example:
> >
> >   $ git bundle create v5.9-rc1.bundle v5.8..v5.9-rc1
> >   $ cd linux-5.8
> >   $ git bundle APPLY ../5.9-rc1.bundle v5.9-rc1
>
> Sort of. You can specify a refspec when fetching from the bundle to
> fetch only the objects you care about, like:
>
>   cd linux-5.8
>   git fetch /path/to/bundle 'refs/tags/v5.9-rc1:refs/tags/v5.9-rc1'
>
> (or if you prefer, "git fetch /path/to/bundle 'tag v5.9-rc1'"). Then
> once you have the objects locally, you can merge it into your HEAD. You
> can do all of that in one step with:
>
>   git pull /path/to/bundle 'refs/tags/v5.9-rc1'
>
> There's no such thing as 'git bundle apply' though, although I suspect
> 'git pull' is what you wanted anyway.

I was actually looking for a way to apply a bundle to an actual source
tree, not a git repository. Fetching stuff from a bundle into a
repository seems to be reasonably well documented.

Thanks,
Andreas