updates for bare repo support

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Joey Hess 2011-03-03 15:59:16 -04:00
parent 486f882471
commit a9d0538da5
6 changed files with 23 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -24,3 +24,6 @@ A possible other approach to the state recording repo is to not
record state changes on the remote in that case. Git-annex already
records remote state changes locally whenever it modifies the state of a
remote. --[[Joey]]
> And... [[done]]! See [[/bare_repositories]] for current status
> and gotchas. --[[Joey]]

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@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ git-annex from being used on USB keys, that would typically
be VFAT formatted:
- Use of symlinks, which VFAT does not support. Very hard to fix.
One possibility is to add [[bare_git_repos]] support, then
a git repo on a thumb drive could be used to transfer data.
Instead, just use [[/bare_repositories]] on the key,
they're supported now.
- Use of ":" in filenames of object files, also not supported.
Could easily be fixed by reorganizing the object directory.

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@ -7,3 +7,8 @@ new cannot see origin.
the .git/config has "url=/.../orig/.git". Apparently git is ok with that
weird construction; probably it treats it as a bare git repo. But git-annex
just sees a directory w/o a .git subdir, and gives up.
---
Just tested, and the new support for bare repositories didn't solve this.
--[[Joey]]