How can I setup a git repository on a local system ? (I am on a windoze box)
This is the setup I am trying to achieve: (everything is on my local machine)
I want to do all my dev in the client folder. Once I am done, I'd like to push it to the host folder.
This is what I've done: (using git bash on windows)
cd c:/
When I push stuff to origin, git spits a lot of remote errors. However, when I make my host a bare git, it pushes successfully.
I don't understand the difference between regular git and bare git. From the manual, all I understood was, bare git is used for storing deltas and when you don't want to store original files. However, I'd like to store the files in host. How can I do that ?
The difference between a "regular git" and a "bare git" is that a bare repository does not have a working directory. You should never push into a regular git repository, as you may run into problems that are hard to recover from. Always push into a bare repository.
If you want to have a "host" where copies of your files do appear, then set up a third repository, cloning from the host one. Whenever you want to update the host files:
git push
from your working directory to update the main repositorygit pull
from your host directory to pull from the originYou can even set up a post-commit hook on the bare repository to automatically do the second step.