Re: Can I zip a git repo without losing anything?

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:55:10 +0000
Carl Smith <carl.input@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After suggesting using zip files to move our projects around, I was
> told that you can not zip a git repo without loosing all the history.
> This didn't make sense to me, but two people told me the same thing,
> so I wasn't sure. I think they may have been confusing the zipped file
> you can download from GitHub with a zipped git repo.
> 
> If someone could put me straight on this, I'd really appreciate it.

To amend the already provided answer -- if you need to move repos
around using the sneakernet, the tool you should probably use is
`git bundle`.
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