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derpy
derpy

Reputation: 67

Accessing data in git bare repo

I've set up a remote server that I want to push git commits to. I've set it up with git init --bare based on advice, but noticed it doesn't have the files there (working tree) after content is pushed there. AKA. if I have a file called something.txt and add and commit it to a local repo, then push to the remote repo, it will record my commit but I can't actually see something.txt on the remote filesystem.

The problem is that I actually want to manipulate the file remotely via a hook. AKA. once I push to any branch, an "update" hook will read a file in the repo and send it to another program.

At the moment, I can print the file list remotely via git ls-tree --full-tree -r HEAD but I'm not yet sure how to view individual files or if I should even be doing it this way (doesn't seem like it's designed this way).

If I create the remote repo without --bare, then I get an error when trying to push due to lack of working tree.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 541

Answers (1)

opatut
opatut

Reputation: 6864

Of course you can also print the file with command line tools, but is that really what you want? You can simply create a local checkout (git clone $path-to-bare-repository $somewhere).

If you really only care about that one file, have a look at git cat-file, e.g.

git cat-file -p $ID_FROM_LS_TREE

As a one-liner:

git cat-file -p $(git ls-tree --full-tree -r HEAD | grep something.txt | awk '{print $3}')

Upvotes: 1

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