Bill Lear wrote: > On Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 16:10:45 (+0000) Joseph Wakeling writes: >> Matthias Lederhofer wrote: >>> I don't think there is any way to 'clone to remote'. You'd have to >>> ssh to the other machine and clone from there, or you can just create >>> an empty repository on the remote host and push the stuff into it. >> I remember coming across the same issue as Matthieu and never got round >> to solving it. In my case the desire is to upload the code onto a >> remote machine---in particular a cluster where I run simulations. I >> don't particularly need that remote code to be in a repo or otherwise, >> since it's only there to be run, not edited. >> >> As far as I know I have no way of installing git on that machine. >> Perhaps I could install it locally but I suspect the sysadmin would not >> be supportive. >> >> So, is there a way of using git to upload my code to a machine without a >> repo ready-prepared? > > If you must ... > > % cat ~/.gitconfig > [alias] > scp !scp > rcp !rcp > % git scp -rp . me@remotehost:/directory > :-) Perhaps a better solution would be to do git archive --format=tar --prefix=project/ | bzip2 -f9 | \ ssh user@remote -C "cat > project.tar.bz2" Then unpack and build as usual on the remote end. Works a treat and is currently the gist of the only line in my "push-to-web" script (the rest of it just extends the command to run to also unpack the tarball). -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - 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