On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:55:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hm. We tell people to set up public repo's by doing something like: > > > > git clone --bare ~/proj proj.git > > touch proj.git/git-daemon-export-ok > > scp -r proj.git example.com: > > > > Is that going to hit the same problem if the public server has an older > > git version? > > It will, but I think you should teach people --mirror pushing these > days, which was specifically invented for priming the public > repository. > > That way, the administrator at example.com, as long as he initializes an > empty repository with suitable daemon-export-ok and necessary hooks > (which can be automated via templates), does not even have to allow you > a full ssh access. So the basic instructions would be something like this?: ssh example.com "git init --bare myproj.git" # (or ask your admin to do the previous step) git add remote example example.com:myproj.git git push --mirror example OK, that's neat, thanks. On the backwards-compatibility issue, though: this won't help the large number of people who learned to just clone a bare repo and copy it around, since they aren't of their own initiative going to seek out new ways of doing things that they think they already know how to do. --b. - 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
