Re: inside the git folder

2018-10-04 Thread Stephen Smith
Chris - You may want to look at "git bundle" to transfer the repository contents. Then the recipient could fetch from the bundle to get the source git history. Just a thought. sps On Thursday, October 4, 2018 4:03:27 AM MST Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Chris, > > as mentioned by Stefan (

Re: inside the git folder

2018-10-04 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Chris, as mentioned by Stefan (who is a respected, active core Git contributor, if you need any more arguments to listen to him), it is inappropriate to copy the contents of the .git/ directory wholesale to another user's machine. For one, it would horribly break in case the user overrode `use

Re: inside the git folder

2018-10-04 Thread Chris Jeschke
Hi Stefan, thanks for your answer. The Goal after sending the files is to have a copy on the remote site. This includes that the working directory is the same (what we already guarantee with our tool) and that git is at the same 'state' (that means that we have the same history and that we checko

Re: inside the git folder

2018-10-03 Thread Stefan Beller
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:26 AM Chris Jeschke wrote: > > Hey git-team, > I am working on a plug-in for a distributed pair programming tool. To > skip the details: I was thinking about sending parts of the git folder > as a zip folder with our own Bytestream instead of using the git API. > Is there