Hi David, On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:27 AM, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have several local git repositories on my machine. I'm the only >> user, and use them only locally. Now, sometimes when I need to work >> remotely, I just rsync my repositories to my laptop, and keep working >> there. When I finish (few hours, days or sometimes weeks later), I >> just rsync everything back to my local git repositories on my main >> workstation, and continue working there. >> >> Now I was wondering whether it's OK or whether there are bad >> implication I might not think of working this way. For example, maybe >> some of these little git files are named differently on each machine, >> and rsyncing them back and forth makes me piling a lot of clutter (in >> that case maybe git-gc will clean up everything). Or maybe something >> else horrid is going on and I really should just use git-push or pull. > > the git files are names by their content so you don't need to worry about > them being named differently But can I end up having a lot of clutter ? e.g. if these files change, then rsync will copy the new files, and the old ones will still be kept, piling up like crud. is this correct ? is it problematic ? will git-gc fix it ? -- 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
