Andy Whitcroft wrote: > I was trying to make a bare repo to stage linus' main tree. As this was > only to be a local tree for others to pull from I thought that I could > clone his tree 'bare' and then fetch into that on a regular basis. That > does not appear to be the case? Both git fetch and git repack say 'not > a git repository .git' and bail. > > Is this expected behaviour. Do I have to have all the checked out files? No, but perhaps git doesn't detect _where_ is a git repository. With full repository git tries to find .git somewhere in the directory, or it's parents, if I understand correctly. If running git commands from the inside of bare repository doesn't work, try setting enviromental variable GIT_DIR (e.g. GIT_DIR=git.git git fetch origin), or with git 1.4.2 or newer with --git-dir option (e.g. git --git-dir=git fetch origin). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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