You can use "git config core.worktree <location>" to create a ".git" folder that manages a working copy in another location. I know some of the GUI tools don't support this though so I would only use it if truly necessary . (For example a using git to manage a mapped network drive, it would be faster to keep the ".git" folder on the local harddrive) More documentation here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:40 PM, David Tweed <david.tweed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> # then every once in a while, or from a cron job >> $ git push --all backup >> >> Of course since Git is distributed you can you use this same approach >> to make backups to other systems. You can even edit the .git/config >> to give the [remote "backup"] section more than one url line, so >> that "git push --all backup" will send updated copies to multiple >> locations at once. > > Another advantage of 'git push'ing to another repository (possibly via > cron) as backup is that (for technical reasons) git push has to > 'parse' the new changes to your repository in order to push, so it is > likely to spot corruption (eg, dying disk) at that time and when you > can decide what to do about it. (I have enough backups all over the > place that I don't worry about not having a 'copy' of any stuff I care > about, but that there'll be some fatal corruption I don't notice > immediately that then gets propagated everywhere rendering them > useless.) > > -- > cheers, dave tweed__________________________ > david.tweed@xxxxxxxxx > Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. > "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- > attempted insult seen on slashdot > -- > 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 > -- 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
