Re: How to create and keep up to date a naked/bare repository?

[Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <ml2news@free.fr>]

junkio@cox.net (Junio C Hamano) writes:
> Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <ml2news@free.fr> writes:
> > I can do a: GIT_DIR=. git fetch and it works.
> 
> That is the right way of doing it.

Ok.
 
> > The second question is I'd think I would have to use git fetch instead of
> > git pull as a pull is fetch + merge and merging wouldn't make much sense as
> > I didn't check out any files. Does it make any sense?
> 
> Absolutely.  Bare repositories are either to be pushed into or
> fetched into.

Great I ain't totally lost then!
 
> > The third thing (can't reproduce ATM as I just got a fresh new clone) is
> > that git fetch was just fetching over and over the same objects...
> 
> It sounds like you are not telling fetch to update the refs you
> track from outside.  Perhaps, this may help (untested):
> 
> 	$ GIT_DIR=/pub/scm/git/git.git git fetch \
>         	--update-head-ok $remote master:master

I'll try that and will let you know...

Thanks Junio for getting back to me.
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