The sneakernet in git - trivial backup of personal repositories

The sneakernet in git - trivial backup of personal repositories(object.io)

36 points by Superfud 15 years ago | 4 comments

xyzzyb 15 years ago |

This will only backup the master (or any other specified) branch. I find it's better to just have a bare repo in dropbox added as a remote called "dropbox" and use:

    $ git push dropbox --all

    $ git push dropbox --mirror

callahad 15 years ago |

Mercurial has an identically named feature: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle

Quite useful at times.

wladimir 15 years ago | |

It seems to do a subtly different thing by default, though: the git bundle makes a bundle out of the entire repository. The hg bundle bundles the commits that are 'not known to be in another repository'.

callahad 15 years ago | | |

Yep, that's correct. It also differs in that you use "hg bundle" and "hg unbundle" instead of "git bundle create" and "git bundle unbundle"

If you want a one-shot archive of the entire repo, just specify -a or --all on the command line. Here's an example: http://pastie.org/1617081