Hi, On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: > 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. Exactly. Since there is no .git directory, git does not know where it should look for the repository. Try "git --bare fetch". Hth, Dscho - 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