John, Sounds similar to a scenario I want to consider: promote local Git branch to remote (SSH) bare repository. In other words, your post benefits community. It's helpful. Thank you...
Regards, Michael On Friday, December 7, 2012 10:29:29 AM UTC-6, John McKown wrote: > > Idiot me. This is the same as the use of "scp -r" mentioned in the books, > isn't it? Just "local" instead of via "ssh". Why do these things occurred > to me _after_ I post? > > On Friday, December 7, 2012 10:25:41 AM UTC-6, John McKown wrote: >> >> The way that I normally work is that I have a source directory for a >> project. I do a "git init" on it. I do the usually stuff and eventually end >> up with something that I want to share. I share via an NFS mount NAS device >> at home. So, what I do is a "cd" into the "git" subdirectory on the NAS, >> then do a "git init --bare --shared project.git". I then go back to the >> working directory and do a "git remote add origin ..." followed by a "git >> push --all". This has worked in the past. I'm doing something a bit weird >> right now. I'm making a git directory which contains files which are bzip2 >> compressed. The files are about 140Gb uncompressed, but compress down to an >> amazing 80Mb! Yes, a fantastic compression. But with I tried the "git push >> --all", the process goes to about 60%, then dies on a SIGKILL (signal 9). >> Anyway, it occurred to me that perhaps it would be just as valid to simply >> go into the .git subdirectory of the project and do an "rsync -av" into the >> project.git subdirectory on the NAS. It seemed to work because after I did >> the rsync, I did a "cd" back to the project subdirectory and a "git push >> --all" and receive the "Everything up-to-date" message. Which is exactly >> what I was hoping for. >> >> Is rsync the way that I should have been doing it from the first? It was >> much faster than the "git push" and it worked with no apparent problems. >> > --
