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The sneakernet in git - trivial backup of personal repositories

• callahad 16y ago
  Mercurial has an identically named feature: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle Quite useful at times.
  • wladimir 16y 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 16y 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 http://pastie.org/1617081
• xyzzyb 16y 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 or $ git push dropbox --mirror