Thanks for the replies; is there anything that needs to be known about concurrent updates on a repo when using plumbing commands? On 10 April 2017 at 19:22, Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Julian Goacher <julian.goacher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is it possible to modify a bare repo directly? e.g. is it possible to >> insert a file into a bare repo without first cloning a non-bare copy? >> I'm thinking along the lines of a command or sequence of commands that >> modifies the file index and then copies the file blob into /objects, >> but in a situation where the new file exists separately from the >> target repo. > > Yes. You can use the commands Ævar and Jeff talked about as > (those are probably the easiest). "git fast-import" is also > great to avoid using an index entirely; it can be much faster > for mass modifications.