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How create bare repo

source git init --bare $HOME/dotfiles

  • add this to your .zshrc:
alias git-bare='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
alias bare='git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
alias git-bare='git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
  • Add files you want to commit

[!Important] DELETE .git folder Delete this folder which bare-repo you add. You can't use bare-repo while using .git track for different repo?

git-bare add ~/.git-bare/polybar ~/.git-bare/i3 ~/.git-bare/alacritty ~/Documents/screenloyout
git-bare commit -m "add my files"
  • Add remote repo if you doing first time
git-bare remote add origin <remote-url>
  • Push change master or your branch-name.
git-bare push -u origin bare-repo

How to use .gitignore on bare repo?​

[!important] bare-repo .gitignore Firstly you need to untrack files who is already tracked by git before using .gitignore.

  1. Create global exclude file to your specific location:
# it's exlude files here because bare repo use `--work-tree=$HOME`(e.g /home/<user>/)
bare config --global core.excludefile ~/.gitignore
# or 
bare config --global core.excludefile ~/Documents/.gitignore
  1. Add file name to ~/.gitignore
  2. Untrack if file already tracked by git or unstage if you commit the file. ==WARNING: THIS WOULD DELETE FILES==
bare rm -r --cached .stfolder .stversions

How to get latest changes on bare-repo for other machines?​

If you want to completely replace your local files with the latest version from the bare repository's branch and discard any untracked or modified files, you can follow these steps:

1. Reset the Local Repository​

git fetch origin my-branch 
bare-fetch

git reset --hard origin/my-branch 
bare-reset

How to not get changes from bare-repo branch? (e.g qtile/pycache problem)​

bare-push --force

How to revert one file?​

# learn commit id
git-bare log --follow -p -- flake.lock
# revert back to commit changes. This will modify flake.lock to that commit changes.
git-bare checkout <commit_id> -- flake.lock
# Now you reverted back that commit changes to flake.lock
# You can update file etc.

git doesn't look for folder changes. Add bare-repo again when you add folder.​

  • For example, when you create a new folder or file inside qtile bare-repo don't update it via commit. Therefore, you need to add folder again to add new file and folders.

How to add new folder to bare-repo?​

git-bare add ~/.git-bare/qtile
git-bare commit -m "add qtile"
git-bare push -u origin bare-repo

How to update bare-repo?​

git-bare status #to see modifications
git-bare commit -am 'updated <file_name>'
git-bare push -u origin bare-repo

How to show readme.md on bare-repo?​

  • You just need to create readme.md folder like this: qtile/docs/README.md
    • This will show README.md file on qtile folder.

Others

  • If you want to duplicate all the objects from the main repo, do this inside the main repo:

    git push --all <url-of-bare-repo>

    Alternatively, do a fetch inside the bare repo:

    git fetch <url-of-main-repo>

You cannot do a pull, because a pull wants to merge with HEAD​, which a bare repo does not have. You can add these as remotes to save yourself some typing in the future: I added origin to whatever-name section like this git-bare remote add origin bare-repo-url

  • git remote add <whatever-name> <url-of-other-repo>
  • Then you can simply do
  • git push --all <whatever-name>
  • git fetch <whatever-name>
  • depending on what repo you're in. If <whatever-name>​ is origin​, you can even leave it out altogether.