On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jeff Brown <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The workspace on my server is currently "checked out" so I get the big >> warning message every time I push to there. What is the best way to >> cleanup that working area so I can push to it without the large >> warning every time I commit. I know I can set a config variable to >> squelch the message but that isn't what I want to do. I want to make >> the workspace on the server _not_ be checked out. >> >> Thanks for the help. > > If you never want to checkout any branches in that repo on your > server, then what you want is a bare repository. The easiest way to > create it is as follows: > > $ git clone --bare /path/to/repo /path/to/repo.git > > Then you can remove /path/to/repo after verifying everything is sane. > Note the ".git" extension is a convention denoting the repository is > bare (vs "repo/.git", which implies a repository with a working copy). > > j. > Very good. That appears to have worked nicely. I appreciate the help. When I create a new repo on my server I have been creating an empty directory, then git init, then git add some file and commit. I expect that is the long/wrong way to initialize a repo, especially if I want it to be bare. What is the best approach to creating a cloneable bare repo? jb -- Jeff Brown SpringSource http://www.springsource.com/ Autism Strikes 1 in 166 Find The Cause ~ Find The Cure http://www.autismspeaks.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html