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<opublikowany i wys=B3any>

Bill Lear wrote:

> On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 14:13:47 (-0800) Linus Torvalds writ=
es:
>>...
>> It's one of the bigger UI warts that got fixed since the last releas=
e=20
>> (although it got fixed by better config management, and as such you'=
ll=20
>> only *see* the fixes if you end up doing the initial clone with the =
new=20
>> git version - if you use a new git version with an old repo, many - =
but=20
>> not all - bad semantics will remain).
>> ...
>=20
> With regard to the new version and old repos, am I correct in assumin=
g
> that we can upgrade our old repo (a bare one) to the new git by first
> installing the new git, and then doing this:
>=20
> % cd /repos/git
> % mv project project.old_git
> % git --bare clone project.old_git project

  % git clone --bare project.old_git project

although usually notation project.git is used, so I think it would be

  % git clone --bare project.old_git project.git

"git --bare <cmd>" is equivalent to "git --git-dir=3Dpwd". You want to =
make
bare clone "git clone --bare", not invoke git command in bare repositor=
y
"git --bare <cmd>": there is no repository yet!

You can just edit .git/config (prehaps generate it first
from .git/remotes/origin file using remotes2config.sh script from contr=
ib
section), and move (rename) branches.

--=20
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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