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The sneakernet in git - trivial backup of personal repositories (object.io)
36 points by Superfud 5590 days ago
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xyzzyb 5590 days 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
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callahad 5590 days ago
Mercurial has an identically named feature: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle

Quite useful at times.

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wladimir 5590 days 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'.
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callahad 5590 days 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

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