Re: Migrating Repository without Network

[Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 12:04:15PM +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

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> In either case, it will be possible to fetch all the data from the repo
> saved on the flash drive: it might be not exactly obvious but all Git
> commands which fetch data - such as "clone", "fetch" etc - do understand
> "plain" pathnames such as /the/path/to/the/repo and URLs with the special
> scheme "file://" - such as file:///the/path/to/the/repo, allowing them to
> work with on-disk repos available locally such as on a mounted flash drive.

...it should be noted, though, that "normal" and "bare" repository have
different schemes of storing branches available in them, and it might affect
the approach you will need to employ to fetch really *all* the data to form a
new repo.

It's hardly possible to dive further in this topic because we have next to
zero knowledge about your setup - including whether that repo is bare and is
accessed from the outside, or normal and merely shared between the users
physically logged into the server and so on. I mean, it may so happen that all
you will need to do is to copy the repo to a flash drive and then copy it
again to the new server, possibly fix filesystem permissions on it so that
they match the ones the old repo has, and call it a day. In case you will need
more advanced help, you'll need to provide more details on your situation.